Background: Recent international guidelines recommend treatment without antibiotics for
uncomplicated diverticulitis (UD). We assessed physicians' current knowledge and practices …

In August 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS), a division of the
Department for Health and Human Services in the United States government, proposed …

A median of 3 surgeons were involved throughout the patients' care cycle, 120 (69.0%)
patients had different consenting surgeons v. POS, and 100 (57.5%) patients first met their …

The worse the appendicitis, the more it costs everyone—the patient, the physician, and the
health care system. The time has come to change the prevention, reporting, and payment. In …

For such an uncommon procedure, pancreaticoduodenectomy receives an inordinate
amount of attention by researchers interested in the quality of care in surgery. This may be …

Health care delivery and surgical practice have evolved rapidly over the past decade, driven
in part by the increasing complexity of patients, the severity of their diseases, rapidly …

In the study “Trends in pancreatic surgery experience in general surgery residency in the
US, 1990–2021” Aziz et al. analyzed trends in resident pancreatic operative experience …

The Greek philosopher Aristotle considered that “it is frequent repetition that produces a
natural tendency.” 1 None is more true in the complex world of health care, where superior …

In this month's JAMA Surgery, Scott et al3 have attempted to formally define the operative
procedures that account for the vast majority of surgical admissions. In an analysis of the …

7. Conroy T, Hammel P, Hebbar M, et al. FOLFIRINOX or gemcitabine as adjuvant therapy
for pancreatic cancer. N Engl J Med. 2018; 379: 2395–2406. 8. Perri G, Prakash L, Qiao W …