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The hospital-based sample comprised adult patients aged 18 years or older with a vestibular schwannoma treated with surgery.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ooi220104-7\"><jats:title>Exposures<\/jats:title><jats:p>Facility case volume, defined as the mean number of surgical vestibular schwannoma cases per year in the 2 years preceding the index case.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ooi220104-8\"><jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>The primary outcome was a composite of prolonged hospital stay (&amp;amp;gt;90th percentile) or 30-day readmission. Risk-adjusted restricted cubic splines were used to model the probability of the outcome according to facility volume. The inflection point (in cases per year) when the declining risk of excess time in the hospital began to plateau was selected as the threshold to define high- and low-volume facilities. Outcomes were compared among patients treated at high- and low-volume facilities, with mixed-effects logistic regression models adjusting for patient sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, tumor size, and clustering within facilities. Collected data were analyzed between June 24 and August 31, 2022.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ooi220104-9\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among 11\u202f524 eligible patients (mean [SD] age, 50.2 [12.8] years; 53.5% female; 46.5% male) who underwent surgical resection of vestibular schwannoma at 66 reporting facilities, the median length of stay was 4 (IQR, 3-5) days, and 655 patients (5.7%) were readmitted within 30 days. The median case volume was 16 (IQR, 9-26) cases per year. An adjusted restricted cubic spline model identified a downtrending probability of excess time in the hospital with increasing volume. The declining risk of excess time in the hospital began to plateau at a facility volume of 25 cases per year. Surgery at a facility with an annual case volume at or above this threshold was independently associated with a 42% reduction in the odds of excess time in the hospital compared with surgery at a low-volume center (odds ratio, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.44-0.77).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-ooi220104-10\"><jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title><jats:p>This cohort study found that among adults undergoing vestibular schwannoma surgery, a higher facility case volume was associated with a reduced risk of prolonged hospital stay or 30-day readmission. 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