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Relationship between hospital volume and short-term outcomes: A nationwide population-based study including 75,280 rectal cancer surgical procedures [PDF]

, 2018
There is growing interest on the potential relationship between hospital volume (HV) and outcomes as it might justify the centralization of care for rectal cancer surgery. From the National Italian Hospital Discharge Dataset, data on 75,280 rectal cancer
Barina, Andrea, Bergamo, Francesca, Boso, Caterina, Corti, Maria Chiara, Frambach, Patrick, Gennaro, Nicola, Marchegiani, Francesco, Maretto, Isacco, Perin, Alessandro, Pucciarelli, Salvatore, Rugge, Massimo, Urso, Emanuele Damiano Luca, Zorzi, Manuel, Zuin, Matteo   +13 more
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety of maintaining elective and emergency surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic with the introduction of a Protected Elective Surgical Unit (PESU): A cross-specialty evaluation of 30-day outcomes in 9,925 patients undergoing surgery in a University Health Board

Surgery Open Science, 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented health care challenges mandating surgical service reconfiguration. Within our hospital, emergency and elective streams were separated and self-contained Protected Elective Surgical Units were ...
T Minto, MBChB, T Abdelrahman, MD, L Jones, MBA, J Wheat, FRCS, T Key, MBChB, N Shivakumar, MBChB, J Ansell, MD, O Seddon, MBBCh, A Cronin, FRCS, A Tomkinson, FRCS, A Theron, FRCA, RW Trickett, MD, N Sagua, S Sultana, A Clark, E McKay, A Johnson, Karishma Behera, J Towler, H Kynaston, MD, A Mohamed, G Blackshaw, R Thomas, S Jones, M Shinkwin, H Perry, D Edgbeare, S Chopra, L DaSilva, I Williams, U Contractor, S Bell, S Zaher, M Stechman, S Berry, H Clark, E Bois, C Von Oppell, L Ackerman, E Ablorsu, J Horwood, D Mehta, J Featherstone, E Folaranmi, M Bray, K Siddall, E King, M Phillips, J Morgan, I Chopra, D Evans, K Whitehouse, P Leach, C Thomas, E Davies, M Dyer, A Fox, E Ireland, E Meehan, A Mukit, K Newell, D Parry, B Popham, C Chapman, H Botros   +64 more
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Postoperative sore throat after elective surgical procedures [PDF]

, 2007
Postoperative sore throat is a common complication of anaesthesia and can lead to dissatisfaction after surgery. Many factors can contribute to postoperative sore throat and the incidence varies with the method of airway management Methods: In this ...
Abbasi, Shemaila, Ahmed, Aliya, Ghafoor, Hasham Bin, Ishaq, Muhammad   +3 more
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Attitudes of surgeons to the use of postoperative markers of the systemic inflammatory response following elective surgery [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Cancer is responsible for 7.6 million deaths worldwide and surgery is the primary modality of a curative outcome. Postoperative care is of considerable importance and it is against this backdrop that a questionnaire based study assessing ...
Dolan, Ross D., Horgan, Paul G., McMillan, Donald C., McSorley, Stephen T.   +3 more
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
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QUEUE PROFILE FOR PEDIATRIC SCOLIOSIS SURGERY IN A REFERENCE HOSPITAL IN THE BRAZIL’S MIDWEST

Coluna/Columna, 2023
Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile of the list of patients with pediatric scoliosis (0 to 18 years old) treated at a tertiary public hospital in the Midwest Region.
SINVAL DORNELES FILHO, MURILO TAVARES DAHER, MATEUS BERGAMO LOMAZ, LUCAS LODOMIRO MELO, JULIANE LEITE ORCINO, NATHALIA AIDAR BITTAR, GABRIEL JOãO FRANCISCO DE SOUZA, THIAGO VINíCIUS DE ASSIS MORAES, PEDRO FELISBINO JúNIOR, PAULO HENRIQUE MARTINS SILVA   +9 more
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Trauma and acute care surgeons report prescribing less opioids over time. [PDF]

, 2019
IntroductionConfronted with the opioid epidemic, surgeons must play a larger role to reduce risk of opioid abuse while managing acute pain. Having a better understanding of the beliefs and practices of trauma and acute care surgeons regarding discharge ...
Anderson, Jamie E, Cocanour, Christine S, Galante, Joseph M   +2 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting back to work: A framework and pivot plan to resume elective surgery and procedures after COVID-19

Surgery Open Science, 2021
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled a majority of hospital systems to reduce surgical and procedural volumes in an attempt to preserve resources. Elective surgery and procedures resumption has proven to be a calculated risk between COVID-19
Oscar K. Serrano, MD, MBA, FACS, Rocco Orlando, MD, FACS, Pavlos Papasavas, MD, FACS, Mitchell H. McClure, MD, Ajay Kumar, MD, Adam C. Steinberg, DO, FACS, Jeffrey L. Cohen, MD, FACS, Steven J. Shichman, MD, Rekhinder K. Singh, MD, FACS, William V. Sardella, MD, FACS, Bret M. Schipper, MD, FACS   +10 more
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