Of the patients studied, 61.7 percent stayed in an inpatient hospital after the lumbar discectomy and 38.3 percent had the procedure done in an outpatient setting. Overall complication rate for the outpatient setting was 3.5 percent, compared with 5.4 percent for the inpatient setting.
The patients were chosen from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.
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