Longer stay, greater costs related to late-week laminectomy and discharge to specialty care

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Longer stay, greater costs related to late-week laminectomy and discharge to specialty care

New research by a team from the Cleveland Clinic and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has determined that surgeries performed late in the workweek, and those culminating in discharge to a specialty care facility, are associated with higher costs and unnecessarily longer stays in the hospital following a common elective spine surgery.

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