TY - JOUR
AU - Singh, Devinder P.
AB - Letter to the Editor Aesthetic Surgery Journal 2015, Vol 35(8) NP266–NP268 Nationwide Incidence, Cost, and © 2015 The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Inc. Reprints and permission: Epidemiologic Trends in Facial Rhytidectomy: journals.permissions@oup.com DOI: 10.1093/asj/sjv089 An Examination of Inpatient Facelifts Using the www.aestheticsurgeryjournal.com Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Database Kashyap Komarraju Tadisina, MD; Karan Chopra, MD; Raja Mohan, MD; and Devinder P. Singh, MD Accepted for publication April 24, 2015; online publish-ahead-of-print May 27, 2015. Facelifts are consistently one of the most common aesthetic quartile, and primary expected payer were recorded. operations performed by plastic surgeons in the United Hospital characteristics, including hospital type (teaching/ States (US). In 2013, 133,320 procedures were recorded, a non-teaching, rural/urban), size, and geographic region rise of 6% compared with the previous year, making facelift were recorded. Admission characteristics (weekend, elec- the fifth most commonly performed cosmetic procedure. tive) were obtained. The following outcome measures were Further, rhytidectomy has been found to be safe in a wider, included: length of stay (LOS), inpatient hospital total older range of patients, making it more popular with the charges, and patient disposition, including in-hospital mor- aging baby boomer generation. However, despite the expan- tality. An extensive descriptive 
TI - Nationwide Incidence, Cost, and Epidemiologic Trends in Facial Rhytidectomy: An Examination of Inpatient Facelifts Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Database
JF - Aesthetic Surgery Journal
DO - 10.1093/asj/sjv089
DA - 2015-11-27
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/nationwide-incidence-cost-and-epidemiologic-trends-in-facial-jHrK23buuF
SP - NP266
EP - NP268
VL - 35
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -