Population
13,433 patients at a freestanding ambulatory surgical center
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
two postoperative weeks
Authors
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Supports safety of freestanding ambulatory surgery; leaves open need for randomized confirmation before practice change.
Ambulatory surgery in a freestanding center appears safe with a low incidence of serious complications and no mortality in this large prospective cohort.
Herbert E. Natof (1980) studied this question.
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