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Chapter 7 110 Figure 4. Forest plot for overall complication rate, presented as numbers (n). Experimental, outpatient joint arthroplasty pathway; control, inpatient pathway. Serious adverse events (SAEs) were described in 29 studies (OS=17, SOS=12) [2,3,4,5,6, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 38,39,40,41,42, 44,45,46,47,48,49, 51, 52]. For both OS and SOS studies, no statistically significant differences (by types of arthroplasty) were found for SAEs compared to inpatients (Fig. 6).