Becker's Healthcare June 12, 2024
A study conducted at City of Hope, a cancer research organization based in Duarte, Calif., found that robotic liver surgery can be safely conducted as an outpatient procedure.
The study analyzed data of 307 patients from 2013 to 2023 who had received robotic liver surgery as outpatients, which the study defined as requiring less than two nights in a hospital, at three U.S.-based cancer centers and three based in the Netherlands, according to a June 10 news release from City of Hope.
The analysis found that 8% of patients sampled were discharged from the hospital on the same day, according to the release. Though...
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