BACKGROUND: Health care systems provide care to increasingly complex and elderly
patients. Colorectal surgery is a prime example, with high volumes of major procedures …

SURGICAL QUALITY: MEANING AND ASSESSMENT The Donabedian model consists of 3
components for measuring the quality of health care: structure, process, and outcome …

Minimally invasive surgery represents one of the main evolutions of surgical techniques
aimed at providing a greater benefit to the patient. However, minimally invasive surgery …

Context The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) aims to reduce surgical infectious
complication rates through measurement and reporting of 6 infection-prevention process-of …

Study Objective To determine the prevalence of postsurgical opioid use in the inpatient
setting, to ascertain the frequency of and risk factors for opioid‐related adverse drug events …

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal perioperative care pathway
designed to attenuate the stress response during the patients' journey through a surgical …

Objective Practice guidelines for perioperative pain management recommend that
multimodal analgesic therapy should be used for all post-surgical patients. However, the …

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare single-incision laparoscopic colectomy
(SILC) to multiport laparoscopic colectomy (MLC) when performed by experienced …

Abstract Background Surgical-site infections (SSIs) are nosocomial infectious complications
causing significant morbidity, mortality, and hospital costs. Recently, the US Department of …

Almost all patients develop postoperative ileus (POI) after abdominal surgery. POI
represents the single largest factor influencing length of stay (LOS) after bowel resection …