Adopting Ambulatory Breast Cancer Surgery as the Standard of Care in an Asian Population
Table 5
Details of surgical outcomes in patients who had undergone ambulatory surgery and inpatient surgery ().
Characteristics
Ambulatory surgery ()
Inpatient surgery ()
value
Number of readmissions within 30 days
37
25
0.07
Median length of stay following readmission (days)
3 (1–27)
4 (1–17)
0.07
Complications
0.69
Wound hematoma or bleeding
15
7
Wound infection
13
9
Wound dehiscence
0
4
Wound pain
3
0
Drain complicationsa
0
5
Othersb
6
0
Number of reoperations
10
5
0.77
Wound exploration and haemostasis
8
1
Wound debridement
2
1
Secondary suture of wound
0
3
aHigh drain output, drain dislodgement. bSyncope in 3 patients, lower limb deep venous thrombosis in 1 patient, diarrhoea in 1 patient, and hyperkalemia in 1 patient.