Background Advances in peri-operative care of surgical oncology patients result in shorter
hospital stays. Earlier discharge may bring benefits, but complications can occur while …

Formal home care is an appropriate substitute for acute hospital care for many older people.
However, limited empirical evidence exists on the extent of substitution between the supply …

OBJECTIVE With global aging, elective craniotomies are increasingly being performed in
elderly patients. There is a paucity of prospective studies evaluating the impact of these …

There are 60 million people living in rural America, which represents 25% of the population
yet only 10% of General Surgeons practice in those areas. Rural patients tend to be older …

Purpose Rectal cancer resections can be associated with long and complicated
postoperative recoveries. Many patients undergoing these operations are discharged to …

Background Administrative data provide a unique opportunity to examine whole‐of‐state
colorectal cancer (CRC) data. The purpose of this study was to compare types of CRC …

Purpose Volume-outcome relationship is well established in elective colorectal surgery for
cancer, but little is known for patients managed for obstructive colon cancer (OCC). We …

Introduction Even if a positive volume-outcome correlation in surgery is mostly admitted in
many surgical fields, the various ways to assess this relationship make it difficult for …

Preoperative distress is associated with poor postoperative outcomes, such as increased
risk of surgical site infection and readmission, and brief psychosocial interventions delivered …