Science news articles about 'surgery outcomes'

Objective, validated measures for assessing outcomes following facial plastic surgery have become more prevalent over the past decade, according to a review of previous studies published in the May/ ...

... in English between 1806 and 2007 to identify instruments used to measure outcomes for certain facial plastic surgery procedures. The instruments were classified as either patient-reported or clinical ...

... data on a population-based study of carotid-surgery outcomes and risk factors in community practice ... death or stroke in the first 30 days after surgery varied greatly according to a patient's age, race ...

... to help place screws in the spines of patients results in safe and accurate surgery with a decrease in the number of misplaced screws, and subsequent injuries, seen in more traditional operations, ...

... to help place screws in the spines of patients results in safe and accurate surgery with a decrease in the number of misplaced screws, and subsequent injuries, seen in more traditional operations, ...

Pregnant women appear to have worse clinical and economic outcomes after thyroid and parathyroid surgery compared with women who are not pregnant, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of ...

... undergo a series of three open-heart surgeries – called the staged Fontan reconstruction – to reshape ... unique heart defect, thus improving the surgery outcome and recovery time." The patient described ...

A new study shows surgery results are the same no matter the moon's phase.

... a trusted source of information will lead to better informed patients and, in turn, improved expectations of surgery outcomes," said Clifford Ko, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery at the University of ...

... researchers looked to see if patients were able to undergo resection for their liver metastasis and when surgery outcome took place, as well as changes in chemotherapy utilization at the institutions ...

... Insurance Status Affect Gastric Bypass Surgery Outcomes? (Abstract #M1588) A new study ... Medicare patients who come in for gastric bypass surgery are disabled, which is why they tend to have higher rate ...