Commentary on an article by Sunny Kim, PhD, et al.: "Increase in Outpatient Knee Arthroscopy in the United States: A Comparison of National Surveys of Ambulatory Surgery, 1996 and 2006"

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gracy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knee Arthroscopy ◽  
Ambulatory Surgery ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Surveys

Opioid prescribing to preteen children undergoing ambulatory surgery in the United States

Surgery ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi S. Cartmill ◽  
Dou-Yan Yang ◽  
Benjamin J. Walker ◽  
Yasmin S. Bradfield ◽  
Tony L. Kille ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ambulatory Surgery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Prescribing

Benchmarks for the Durations of Ambulatory Surgical Procedures in Otolaryngology

2011 ◽  
Vol 120 (11) ◽  
pp. 727-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Surgical Procedures ◽  
Ambulatory Surgery ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tube Placement ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Room Time ◽  
Ambulatory Procedures

Objectives: I undertook to determine benchmarks and variability for the surgical times associated with ambulatory otolaryngological procedures in the United States. Methods: I examined the 2006 release of the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery and extracted all cases of otolaryngological surgery in which one, and only one, otolaryngological procedure was performed. The mean surgical times and operating room times were determined for each procedure that met reliability criteria for their estimates. A secondary analysis was computed for tonsillectomy and for tonsillectomy plus adenoidectomy according to a patient age of greater than 12 years. Results: An estimated 1.68 ± 0.23 million otolaryngological procedures were analyzed as solitary procedures, including 507,000 cases of myringotomy with ventilation tube placement, 136,000 cases of tonsillectomy, and 429,000 cases of tonsillectomy plus adenoidectomy. The mean (±SE) surgical times were 8.0 ± 0.5, 23.9 ± 1.8, and 20.3 ± 0.8 minutes, respectively. The total operating room times were 17.6 ± 0.9, 48.2 ± 2.0, and 40.7 ± 1.1 minutes, respectively. Septoplasty with turbinectomy was the most common rhinologic procedure performed (48,000 cases analyzed) and had surgical and operating room times of 49.6 ± 4.78 and 79.8 ± 5.8 minutes, respectively. The surgical times for tonsillectomy and tonsillectomy plus adenoidectomy did not differ significantly in magnitude according to standard age cutoffs, although the operating room time was slightly (11.7 minutes) longer for tonsillectomy in patients more than 12 years of age (p = 0.034). Conclusions: The surgical times for the performance of the most common otolaryngological ambulatory procedures are remarkably consistent in the United States. Given the volume and consistency of these surgical procedures, they are ideal candidates for studies of cost and efficiency.

scholarly journals Sexual Abstinence in the United States: Cohort Trends in Abstaining from Sex While Never Married for U.S. Women Born 1938 to 1983

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237802312090847
Author(s):  
Lawrence L. Wu ◽  
Steven P. Martin ◽  
Paula England ◽  
Nicholas D. E. Mark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abstinence ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Never Married ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Family Growth ◽  
Using Data

In this data visualization, the authors document trends in abstaining from sex while never married for U.S. women born 1938–1939 to 1982–1983. Using data from the six most recent National Surveys of Family Growth, the authors’ estimates suggest that for women born in the late 1930s and early 1940s, 48 percent to 58 percent reported abstaining from sex while never married. Abstinence then declined rapidly among women born in the late 1940s through the early 1960s, leveling off at between 9 percent and 12 percent for more recent birth cohorts. Thus, for U.S. women born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, roughly one in nine abstained from sex while never married.

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