Objective: Association of insurance type with colorectal surgical complications, textbook outcomes (TO), and cost in a safety-net hospital (SNH). Background: SNHs have higher …
Importance Evaluating how social determinants of health (SDOH) influence veteran outcomes is crucial, particularly for quality improvement. Objective To measure associations …
BACKGROUND: Patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experience chronic sleep disturbances and desaturation, factors that have been associated with postoperative …
RC Simon, J Kim, S Schmidt, BB Brimhall… - Journal of Surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Safety-net hospitals (SNHs) have higher postoperative complications and costs versus low-burden hospitals. Do low socioeconomic status/vulnerable patients …
BACKGROUND: Surgical outcome/cost analyses typically focus on single outcomes and do not include encounters beyond the index hospitalization. STUDY DESIGN: This cohort study …
BACKGROUND: Surgical analyses often focus on single or binary outcomes; we developed an ordinal Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) for surgery to increase granularity and …
Q Yan, J Kim, DE Hall, MC Shinall Jr, KM Reitz… - Journal of Surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Yentl syndrome describing sex-related disparities has been extensively studied in medical conditions but not after surgery. This retrospective cohort study assessed the …
BA Quinton, HA Quereshy, C Cleveland… - Current …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The goal of this review is to describe the complex process by which a procedure code is assigned value using relative value units (RVUs) and discuss …