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Patients meeting criteria for informed

AAOS: Informed Decision Making Ups QoL After Orthopedic Surgery

Patients meeting criteria for informed, patient-centered decisions have better overall QoL
Receiving a preoperative educational telephone call does not reduce anxiety or improve satisfaction for patients undergoing same-day office consultation and Mohs micrographic surgery

Pre-Op Phone Consult Doesn’t Cut Anxiety Before Mohs Surgery

Educational telephone consult doesn't reduce anxiety or up satisfaction before Mohs micrographic sx
For individuals with a diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis

Care Setting Affects Management of Carotid Artery Stenosis

Likelihood of undergoing procedural management increased for treatment in fee-for-service system

February 2017 Briefing – Surgery

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Surgery for February 2017. This roundup includes the latest...

February 2017 Briefing – Pathology

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Pathology for February 2017. This roundup includes the latest...

February 2017 Briefing – Anesthesiology

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Anesthesiology for February 2017. This roundup includes the latest...
Older patients

Similar Outcomes for Disc Surgery in Older, Younger Patients

But older patients have a higher risk of minor complications, longer hospital stays
Survival is 79 percent for neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia undergoing surgical repair

Survival 79 Percent for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Survival 89 percent for those who did not need ECMO, versus 75 percent for those who received ECMO
Insurance status is associated with adverse patient safety indicators among patients undergoing inpatient lumbar fusion

Insurance Status Linked to Patient Safety in Lumbar Fusion

Medicaid, self-pay patients more likely to experience patient safety indicators
For patients undergoing single-level elective anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

Higher ASA Class Not Tied to 30-Day Morbidity in Spinal Surgery

No higher 30-day morbidity with ASA >II in single-level elective anterior cervical discectomy, fusion