title: Cholecystectomy in a community hospital.
abstract: Modern elective cholecystectomy, when distinguished from emergency operations and those complicated by choledocholithiasis, should be a safe procedure with a brief hospital stay. In a community hospital, 100 consecutive patients underwent cholecystectomy, with minor complications in 7 percent. The postoperative hospital stay averaged less than 4 days, and the cost was just over +2,000. Elective cholecystectomy in the community can have minimal risk and will likely remain cost-effective even when medical therapies become available.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000191:economics*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008404:Massachusetts; D008875:Middle Aged; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications