Surgery

Number of Americans with medical debt on their credit reports fell by 8.2 million from 2020 to 2022

However, physicians had substantially lower excess mortality than the general U.S. population

ChatGPT performs at or near the passing threshold of 60 percent accuracy without specialized training

Lower peak patellofemoral joint contact force linked to prevalent early PFJ osteoarthritis at one year after ACL reconstruction

Sublobar resection is noninferior for disease-free and overall survival for patients with tumors ≤2 cm

Patients with all fracture types enrolled in the integrated inpatient and outpatient program had reduced length of stay and total direct costs

Program would allow inmates to receive sentence reductions of 60 days to one year after donating organs or bone marrow

Rates of in-hospital mortality, failure to rescue decreased from a hospital volume threshold of >25 liver resections per year

No subgroup of patients identified benefitted from arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for knee pain, knee function, health-related QoL

Prevalence of postoperative white matter injury has declined, correlating with increase in blood pressures after surgery