Association between time to source control in sepsis and 90-day mortality

KM Reitz, J Kennedy, SR Li, R Handzel… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Rapid source control is recommended to improve patient outcomes in sepsis.
Yet there are few data to guide how rapidly source control is required. Objective To …

National trends in robotic pancreas surgery

RS Hoehn, I Nassour, MA Adam, S Winters… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Robotic pancreatic surgery is expanding throughout centers across the country.
We investigated national trends in the use and outcomes for robotic-assisted …

Is long travel distance a barrier to surgical cancer care in the United States? A systematic review

J Herb, M Shell, R Carlson, K Stitzenberg - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Travel distance to surgical cancer care is increasing. The relationship between
increased travel distance and receipt of surgical cancer care in the United States is not well …

How referring providers choose specialists for their patients: a systematic review

CB Finn, JK Tong, HE Alexander, C Wirtalla… - Journal of General …, 2022 - Springer
Background Physician referrals are a critical step in directing patients to high-quality
specialists. Despite efforts to encourage referrals to high-volume hospitals, many patients …

Outcomes for high-risk surgical procedures across high-and low-competition hospital markets

SR Thumma, SHA Dualeh, NJ Kunnath… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Maintaining competition among hospitals is increasingly seen as important to
achieving high-quality outcomes. Whether or not there is an association between hospital …

European Respiratory Society guideline on various aspects of quality in lung cancer care

TG Blum, RL Morgan, V Durieux… - European …, 2023 - Eur Respiratory Soc
This European Respiratory Society guideline is dedicated to the provision of good quality
recommendations in lung cancer care. All the clinical recommendations contained were …

Impact of two waves of Sars‐Cov2 outbreak on the number, clinical presentation, care trajectories and survival of patients newly referred for a colorectal cancer: a …

E Kempf, S Priou, G Lamé, C Daniel… - … Journal of Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The SARS‐Cov2 may have impaired care trajectories, patient overall survival (OS), tumor
stage at initial presentation for new colorectal cancer (CRC) cases. This study aimed at …

Association of textbook outcome and surgical case volume with long-term survival in patients undergoing surgical resection for pancreatic cancer

R Kalagara, A Norain, YH Chang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Current literature has identified textbook outcome (TO) as a quality metric
after cancer surgery. We studied whether TO after pancreatic resection has a stronger …

Association of social vulnerability with the use of high-volume and Magnet recognition hospitals for hepatopancreatic cancer surgery

A Diaz, JM Hyer, R Azap, D Tsilimigras, TM Pawlik - Surgery, 2021 - Elsevier
Background In an effort to improve perioperative and oncologic outcomes, there have been
multiple quality improvement initiatives, including regionalization of high-risk procedures …

Type A aortic dissection: optimal annual case volume for surgery

MJ Kawczynski, SMJ van Kuijk… - European Heart …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The current study proposes a novel volume–outcome (V–O)
meta-analytical approach to determine the optimal annual hospital case volume threshold …