Outpatient arteriography: its safety and cost effectiveness.

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Abstract
An 11-yr experience with 2029 outpatient arteriograms in a 500-bed community hospital with active vascular and cardiosvascular services is reported. During this period 3864 inpatient arteriograms were also obtained. The major complication rate was lower for the outpatient procedures than for the inpatient procedures, and no malpractice claims were made as a result of outpatient arteriography. There were considerable cost savings with the outpatient artreriography. Since conventional arteriography can be done safely and economically on an outpatient basis, and provides images of superior quality, it is considered highly competitive with digital subtraction angiography.

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