PPCs are associated with a higher incidence of life-threatening events and higher costs.
Reliable PPC risk-stratification tools are essential for guiding clinical decision-making in the …

Introduction Mastectomy skin flap necrosis (MSFN) has a reported incidence of 5%–30% in
the literature. It is often a significant and underappreciated problem. The aim of this article …

Objective: The relationship between patient satisfaction and surgical quality is unclear for
US hospitals. Using national data, we examined if hospitals with high patient satisfaction …

Importance Despite policies aimed at incentivizing clinical integration, few data exist on
whether fragmentation of care is associated with worse outcomes for elderly patients …

Objective: To determine whether black patients have higher odds of readmission than white
patients after major surgery, and to ascertain whether these disparities are related to where …

Importance Potentially preventable adverse events remain a formidable cause of patient
harm and health care expenditure despite advances in systems-based risk-reduction …

Importance Hospital readmission rates following surgery are increasingly being used as a
marker of quality of care and are used in pay-for-performance metrics. To our knowledge …

Importance Readmissions after surgery are costly and may reflect quality of care in the index
hospitalization. Objectives To determine the timing of postoperative complications with …

OBJECTIVE Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs follow a multimodal,
multidisciplinary perioperative care approach that combines evidence-based perioperative …

Background In contrast to the significant advantages of laparoscopic versus open
gastrectomy, robotic gastrectomy has shown little benefit over laparoscopic gastrectomy …