Is outpatient cleft lip repair associated with increased rates of readmission and reoperation? A retrospective cohort study of 4257 patients.

Aidin Gharavi¹, Elizabeth B Habermann², Dawit Haile³, Samir Mardini⁴, Uldis Bite⁴, Shelagh Cofer⁵, Waleed Gibreel⁶

¹Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA. Electronic address: gharavi.aidin@mayo.edu.

²Division of Health Care Delivery Research, Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

³Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

⁴Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

⁵Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

⁶Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Department of Pediatric and Adolescents Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

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Abstract

Cleft lip is a common craniofacial anomaly, yet standard practices for cleft lip repair (CLR), particularly regarding inpatient versus outpatient care, remain variable across clinical practice. To determine whether outpatient CLR is associated with increased 30-day readmission or reoperation rates, the National Surgery Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric (NSQIP-P) database was queried from 2014…

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