Tag: Surgery: Misc.
30-Day Mortality Lower With Female Surgeons
But surgeon sex is not associated with differences in readmissions or complications
Medial Temporal Lobe Surgery Linked to Prevalence of Tinnitus
Increased prevalence of tinnitus compared with controls and participants with self-reported epilepsy
Negative Margins, Lymph Node Yields Predict Survival
Can be used as metrics for hospitals performing head and neck squamous cell carcinoma surgery
IDSA: Surgical Site Infections Up With Reported Penicillin Allergy
Increased risk of SSI was mediated by patients' receipt of alternative perioperative antibiotic
Longer Anesthesia Duration Tied to More Surgical Complications
Findings in patients undergoing head, neck microvascular reconstruction
Health Literacy Linked to Length of Stay After Abdominal Surgery
No significant correlation with increased rates of 30-day ER visits or 90-day hospital readmissions
Increase in Number of Centers Doing Robotic Prostatectomy
Radical prostatectomy centers that closed from '10 to '14 more likely in areas with strong competition
Patient Factors Differ for Surgical, All-Cause Readmission
Highest odds of return to theater after hip surgery tied to drug abuse, psychoses, dementia, depression
September 2017 Briefing – Surgery
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Surgery for September 2017. This roundup includes the latest...
September 2017 Briefing – Pathology
Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Pathology for September 2017. This roundup includes the latest...
