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01-04-2020 | Breast Reduction Plastic | Short Communication

A survey of Canadian trends in outpatient reduction mammaplasty

Authors: Bradley H. C. Greene, Shane F. Seal, Joy Cluett, Donald G. Fitzpatrick, Arthur Rideout, David D. Jewer

Published in: European Journal of Plastic Surgery | Issue 2/2020

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Breast reduction surgery or reduction mammaplasty has become one of the most common surgeries performed by plastic surgeons in North America [1]. Outcomes are well received by both patients and physicians. The length of stay has significantly changed to the extent that the number of these procedures being performed as an outpatient procedure in the USA has increased dramatically over the past two decades [2‐4]. The overall cost savings are approximately 18% less than that of inpatients or $873 per patient, and complication rates have been comparatively favorable [5‐7]. Up to 92% of surgeries in the USA are done as an outpatient procedure [8]. …

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Title: A survey of Canadian trends in outpatient reduction mammaplasty
Authors: Bradley H. C. Greene
Shane F. Seal
Joy Cluett
Donald G. Fitzpatrick
Arthur Rideout
David D. Jewer
Publication date: 01-04-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Breast Reduction Plastic
Breast Reduction Plastic
Breast Reduction Plastic
Published in: European Journal of Plastic Surgery / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0930-343X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-0130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-019-01579-x

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