Newswise — DETROIT – As hospitals have shifted an array of common urological surgeries from inpatient procedures to outpatient, potentially preventable deaths have increased following
the procedure, according to a study published in the Journal of Urology.

The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, found that the rate of death following outpatient surgery for urological conditions increased from 0.5 percent in the early 1990s to 1.5 percent in the early 2000