title: Recent hospital policy changes to cut length of stay to cut costs: same-day major surgery, accelerated discharge, and changing inpatient to outpatient consults: a patient and academic gastro-enterologist's perspective.
authors: M S
authors: MS
authors: Cappell
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D005762:Gastroenterology; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics*; D010045:Outpatients; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000191:economics; D011640:Public Policy; D013997:Time Factors