Annals of surgery
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Association of Hospital Network Participation With Surgical Outcomes and Medicare Expenditures.
The aim of this study was to evaluate whether hospital network participation is associated with improvement in surgical outcomes and spending compared to control hospitals not participating in a network. ⋯ Hospital network participation was not associated with improvements in patient outcomes or lower episode payments among Medicare beneficiaries undergoing inpatient surgery.
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Multicenter Study
Quality Versus Quantity: The Potential Impact of Public Reporting of Hospital Safety for Complex Cancer Surgery.
To estimate the potential mortality reduction if patients chose the safest hospitals for complex cancer surgery. ⋯ Public reporting of hospital safety, specifically based on RSMR instead of volume, has the potential to lead to meaningful reductions in surgical mortality after complex cancer surgery, even in the setting of a modest patient realignment.
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Comparative Study
Surgical Telementoring Without Encumbrance: A Comparative Study of See-through Augmented Reality-based Approaches.
This study investigates the benefits of a surgical telementoring system based on an augmented reality head-mounted display (ARHMD) that overlays surgical instructions directly onto the surgeon's view of the operating field, without workspace obstruction. ⋯ The ARHMD system promises to improve accuracy and to eliminate focus shifts in surgical telementoring. Because ARHMD participants were able to refine their execution of instructions, task completion time increased. Unlike a tablet system, the ARHMD does not require modifying natural motions to avoid collisions.