Apr 11, 2022

As health care shifts to value-based models, one strategy within orthopedics has been to transition appropriate cases to outpatient or ambulatory settings to reduce costs; however, there are limited d...

Apr 11, 2022

Dispersal drives invasion dynamics of non-native species and pathogens. Applying knowledge of dispersal to optimize management of invasions can mean the difference between a failed or successful contr...

Apr 11, 2022

Opioid overprescribing after surgery is a significant public health issue in most developed countries, including New Zealand. However, there is a lack of literature on the patterns and risk factors fo...

Apr 11, 2022

Surgical site infection is a common postoperative complication of colorectal cancer surgery, and surgical site infection increases medical costs, prolongs hospitalization, and worsens long-term progno...

Apr 06, 2022

The research had 3 goals: first, the researchers sought to determine the level of radiation exposure received by pediatric trauma patients; second, to model the risk of fatal carcinogenesis; and third...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to determine the results of laparoscopic, robotic-assisted live donor nephrectomy (RLDN) in the first and largest series ever published. The introduction of minimal...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to determine if single-cell and plasma proteomic aspects of the host's immune response to surgery could adequately identify individuals who developed a surgical sit...

Apr 06, 2022

The efficacy of image-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) was investigated to correctly determine a pathologic complete response in the breast (pCR-B). In up to 80% of women with breast cancer, neoadj...

Apr 06, 2022

The researchers sought to determine the occurrence, risk factors, and outcomes of colon involvement in necrotizing pancreatitis patients for a study. Necrotizing pancreatitis was marked by a severe in...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to determine how income mobility affected racial disparities in colorectal cancer. Differences in colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes between Black and White p...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers evaluated the security of sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass surgery in a large cohort of commercially insured bariatric surgery patients using the IBM MarketScan claim...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to investigate the development and natural history of a hiatal hernia using a barium upper gastrointestinal series (UGI). Although Hiatal hernias were widespread, l...

Apr 06, 2022

The possible organ-preservation strategy of definitive chemoradiotherapy as a primary treatment for esophageal cancer was evaluated in randomized controlled studies. For a study, the researchers sough...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to evaluate the overall survival of individuals with a CCR who were on active surveillance against those who had a conventional esophagectomy. After neoadjuvant che...

Apr 06, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to conduct a meta-analysis of RCTs that compared intraoperative RBC transfusion techniques to find how they affected postoperative morbidity, mortality, and blood p...

Apr 05, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to find a link between the timing of surgery and the development of Covid-19 and the risk of postoperative problems. It was unclear whether patients who recovered f...

Apr 05, 2022

A simulator was created to allow for safe practice and assessment of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (ALND), and face, content, and construct validity were studied. The decline in the frequency of ALND...

Apr 05, 2022

Researchers predicted that the ratio of positive lymph nodes to total evaluated lymph nodes (LNR) as a predictor of cancer burden in esophageal adenocarcinoma may be used to select patients who would ...

Apr 05, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to Use evaluation instruments routinely used by general surgery resident training programs to describe the quality of operative performance feedback. At the end of ...

Apr 05, 2022

For a study, the researchers sought to conduct the first systematic review of all available gender-affirming surgery (GAS) publications to evaluate the outcomes reported in the literature and the meth...