Annals of surgery
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Comparative Study
Hospital Teaching Status and Medicare Expenditures for Complex Surgery.
To evaluate the relationship between hospital teaching intensity, Medicare payments, and perioperative outcomes. ⋯ After price-standardization to account for intended differences in Medicare spending, risk-adjusted Medicare payments for an episode of surgical care were similar at teaching hospitals and nonteaching hospitals for three complex inpatient operations.
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We sought to develop a "Model Of Recurrence After Liver transplant" (MORAL) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). ⋯ The MORAL score provides a simple, highly accurate tool for predicting recurrence and risk-stratification pre- and postoperatively.
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Comparative Study
Surgical Outcomes for Mastectomy Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.
To evaluate the risk of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for surgical morbidity after mastectomy with or without reconstruction using 1:1 matching. ⋯ This large, matched cohort study, controlled for preoperative risk factors and most importantly for the surgical procedure performed, demonstrates that breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy have no increased risk for surgical morbidity.