Annals of surgery
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To evaluate how the World Health Organization (WHO) surgical safety checklist was implemented across hospitals in England; to identify barriers and facilitators toward implementation; and to draw out lessons for implementing improvement initiatives in surgery/health care more generally. ⋯ We identified common themes that have aided or hindered the introduction of the WHO checklist in England and have translated these into recommendations to guide the implementation of improvement initiatives in surgery and wider health care systems.
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Observational Study
Perioperative hyperglycemia and risk of adverse events among patients with and without diabetes.
To study the association between diabetes status, perioperative hyperglycemia, and adverse events in a statewide surgical cohort. ⋯ For NDM patients, but not DM patients, the risk of adverse events was linked to hyperglycemia. Underlying this paradoxical effect may be the underuse of insulin, but also that hyperglycemia indicates higher levels of stress in NDM patients than in DM patients.
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Comparative Study
Long-term oncologic outcomes of robotic low anterior resection for rectal cancer: a comparative study with laparoscopic surgery.
The aim of this study is to evaluate long-term oncologic outcomes of robotic surgery for rectal cancer compared with laparoscopic surgery at a single institution. ⋯ No significant differences were found in the 5-year overall, disease-free survival and local recurrence rates between robotic and laparoscopic surgical procedures. We concluded that robotic surgery for rectal cancer failed to offer any oncologic or clinical benefits as compared with laparoscopy despite an increased cost.
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The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic survey of common precursor microRNA (pre-miRNA) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and evaluate their clinical relevance in patients with major blunt trauma. ⋯ Our results indicate that the rs4919510G/C SNP in hsa-mir-608 may be a prognostic biomarker for sepsis in patients with major trauma. Further characterization of miRNA SNPs may open new avenues for studying sepsis and developing novel therapeutic approaches.
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The relationship between patient satisfaction and surgical quality is unclear for US hospitals. Using national data, we examined if hospitals with high patient satisfaction have lower levels of performance on accepted measures of the quality and efficiency of surgical care. ⋯ Among US hospitals that perform major surgical procedures, hospitals with high patient satisfaction provided more efficient care and were associated with higher surgical quality. Our findings suggest there need not be a trade-off between good quality of care for surgical patients and ensuring a positive patient experience.