Surgery

Gains in cognitive skills, adaptive function slower for children with low cognition, low adaptive behavior with hearing aids versus implants

Experience of mistreatment or discrimination by patients, families, visitors independently linked with higher odds of burnout

For patients with stage II/III esophageal cancer, five-year survival is improved with early versus delayed esophagectomy

Mean total task time less for those using clinical decision support software prototype versus current standard electronic health record workflow

Risks for all-cause mortality and hospitalization for heart failure reduced according to meta-analysis of data from two randomized trials

Patients with more severe findings less likely to have prolonged delays; current smokers had more delays than former smokers

Long-term hernia recurrence rates similar for abdominal wall reconstruction performed by surgical fellows, faculty

Female trauma patients had longer stay in ED, longer time in pretriage, increased likelihood of discharge to nursing or long-term care facilities

Twenty-eight percent of trials used historical, external, or other control; nearly half used surrogate measure as a primary end point

Number of days alive and out of hospital within first 90 days greater for robot-assisted surgery, but clinical significance of findings unclear