Purpose Accurate assessment of clinical performance is essential to ensure graduating
residents are competent for unsupervised practice. The Accreditation Council for Graduate …

Objective: To evaluate if receipt of complex cancer surgery at high-quality hospitals is
associated with a reduction in disparities between individuals living in the most and least …

Background Disparities in utilization of post-discharge care and overall expenditures may
relate to site of care and race/ethnicity. We sought to define the impact of minority-serving …

Background While significant efforts have been made to understand surgical disparities for
procedures that are performed in either the elective or unplanned settings, far less is known …

Purpose Despite ongoing efforts to improve surgical education, surgical residents face gaps
in their training. However, it is unknown if differences in the training of surgeons are reflected …

In the light of rising health expenditures, the cost-efficient provision of high-quality inpatient
care is on the agenda of policy-makers worldwide. In the last decades, prospective payment …

Importance Improving equity in organ transplant access for people with intellectual and
developmental disabilities (IDD) is a topic of social discourse in mainstream media, state …

Background The interplay of patient-, procedural, and provider-level factors on the ability to
achieve a textbook outcome (TO) remain poorly defined. Methods The Medicare Standard …

Objective: Health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) were created by the Health
Resources and Services Administration to identify communities with a shortage of clinical …

BACKGROUND: Major disparities in complications and mortality after appendectomy
between countries with different income levels have not been well characterized, as …