TY - T1 - Cost savings in outpatient versus inpatient reduction mammaplasty SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/229849 T3 - A1 - Carpelan, A.; Kauhanen, S. A2 - PB - Y1 - 2016 LA - eng AB - Background and aims: Reduction mammaplasties are increasingly performed as outpatient procedures. Cost savings are assumed, but published data on the subject are scarce. The aim of this study was to retrospectively determine the possible cost savings achieved by performing reduction mammaplasties as outpatient procedures. Material and methods: Reduction mammaplasty was performed for 90 outpatients and 44 inpatients, with comparable health status. Demographic, surgical, and complication data were... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Reduction mammaplasty; Outpatient surgery; Cost savings; Complications; BREAST REDUCTION; COMPLICATIONS; 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology N1 - PP - ER -