... . "There's been this hunger to have some sort of scientific way to predict surgical outcomes in older people," says Martin A. Makary ... . Previous research has also linked frailty to poor outcomes even in patients not undergoing surgery and has associated ...
... ) orders appear to be at higher risk for poor surgical outcomes, according to a report published online today ... order on post-operative surgical care and to determine the long-term outcomes of DNR patients ...
Surgical patients with do-not-resuscitate orders appear to be at higher risk for poor surgical outcomes, according to a new study.
... Institutes of Health – to develop technology for quantifying surgical outcomes and understanding patients' perceptions of changes ... like after their surgery and are constrained by what is actually surgically possible," Markey said. The bigger goal of one of the research ...
... (ACS NSQIP®), achieved substantial improvements in surgical outcomes, such as reducing the rates of acute renal ... , risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care in the private ...
... appropriate patient selection is important for the desired surgical outcome, the key to marked improvement following ... positions, this does not exclude the possibility that inadequate surgical technique may be responsible for postoperative lack of benefit ...
... 2003, according to background information in the article. "However, some surgical educators have expressed misgivings about the restricted hours ... the better-rested resident surgeon leads to better surgical outcomes needs further study ...
... for a variety of demographics and health conditions that may have affected surgical outcomes, the researchers found a 17.6 percent ... important negative outcome: African-American women had higher rates of medical and surgical complications ...
... , the primary liver cancers are successfully treated by surgical resection, including liver transplantation and non ... therapy. A group from Korea reviewed the surgical outcomes in terms of the surgical indications and relevant prognostic ...
Among other findings, a study presented in the December issue of Anesthesiology suggests that the use of fresh red blood cells in transfusions for cancer patients could improve cancer recurrence and ...
... in white patients, not black patients. "We found an advantage in surgical outcomes for patients in teaching-intensive hospitals ... know why these racial disparities exist in surgical outcomes, but we have some working hypotheses," said Silber. His ...
Extent of fibrosis is the most profound factor in predicting surgical outcomes of genitourinary fistula repair, suggesting ... from statistical analysis of demographics, fistula characteristics, outcomes and surgical complications. On multivariate analysis, the only parameter ...
... , which conducted the first large-scale analysis of surgical outcomes from the procedure. In the May issue of Otolaryngology Head ... patients weigh both the benefits and the risks of a surgical intervention, he says. "We now have the information we need ...
... process within the duodenal stump section after surgical intervention, which can be useful for future patient-specific predictions of a surgical outcome ...
... rhinosinusitis -- inflammation of the sinus cavities -- according to researchers who conducted the first large-scale analysis of surgical outcomes from the procedure ...
