Day‐surgery vs overnight stay surgery: Patient readmissions
It is very uncertain whether day‐surgery changes number of hospital readmissions compared with overnight stay surgery (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Day‐surgery vs overnight stay surgery Number of hospital readmissions · patients with laparoscopic cholecystectomy. It is very uncertain whether day‐surgery changes number of hospital readmissions compared with overnight stay surgery (very low certainty). Day‐surgery versus overnight stay surgery for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Rate ratio 1.25 [0.43, 3.63] | 5 studies · 464 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day‐surgery versus overnight stay surgery for laparoscopic cholecystectomy 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.