Table 3.

Day care appendectomies.

Author	Study design	Types and number of patients	Appendectomies	D/C < 24 hrs	RR
Schreiber [1]	Retrospective	Acute and subacute appendicitis n = 78	Laparoscopic	Outpatient, 100%	5
Brosseuk and Bathe [2]	Retrospective	Acute appendicitis n = 52	Laparoscopic	75%	—
Velhote et al. [3]	Prospective	Appendicitis n = 144	Open	86%	2
Alvarez and Voitk [4]	Case series	Perforated appendicitis n = 38	Laparoscopic	57%	Nil
Pfeil et al. [5]	Case series	Appendicitis n = 56	Open	100%	—
Bensard et al. [6]	Case series	Appendicitis n = 72	Laparoscopic	66% (acute appendicitis) 27% (suppurative appendicitis)	Nil in both cases
Gilliam et al. [7]	Case series	Acute appendicitis	Laparoscopic	72%	—
Alkhoury et al. [8]	Case series	Appendicitis n = 207	Laparoscopic	78.3% (same day)	2.2–2.5%
Present study	Case series	Acute appendicitis	Laparoscopic	100% 87% (same day)	Nil

(D/C: discharge; RR: readmission rate).