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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.This study examined the effects of skeletal muscle mass on the short‐ and long‐term outcomes of rectal cancer. This study revealed that preoperative sarcopenia was associated with more total postoperative complications, more anastomotic leakage, and worse survival in rectal cancer patients.
Shinya Abe +9 more
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Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 31, Issue 8, Page 3742-3756, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The advent of blockchain technologies is transmuting the way conventional supply chains are being managed. Due to the complexity of dealing with many actors involved in the supply chain networks, contemporary supply chains have limited visibility, transparency, and accountability.
Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan +5 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.The study aim was to clarify how nutrition was managed in patients based on surgical site during the first 7 d after gastrointestinal cancer surgery. As results, oral intake after gastrointestinal cancer surgery started earliest in patients having liver surgery and latest in patients having esophageal surgery.
Yoshikuni Kawaguchi +3 more
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Use of pre-hospital emergency medical services in urban and rural municipalities over a 10 year period: an observational study based on routinely collected dispatch data [PDF]
, 2019 Kathrin Hegenberg +3 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.This retrospective study investigated risk factors for surgical site infections (SSIs) in right‐sided colon cancer surgeries using intracorporeal anastomosis (IA). The results demonstrated that preoperative oral antibiotics (OA) significantly reduced SSI rates, with OA identified as an independent protective factor, suggesting its beneficial role in ...
Naoya Ozawa +8 more
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 This study used recent evidence to investigate and update volume–outcome relationships following open surgical repair (OSR) and endovascular repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysm in England. Higher annual all‐procedure volumes were associated with significantly lower in‐hospital mortality for OSR, but such a relationship was not significant for ...
T. Tong +8 more
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Police Patrol and Dispatch [PDF]
arXivPolice patrol units need to split their time between performing preventive patrol and being dispatched to serve emergency incidents. In the existing literature, patrol and dispatch decisions are often studied separately. We consider joint optimization of these two decisions to improve police operations efficiency and reduce response time to emergency ...
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Live video footage from scene to aid helicopter emergency medical service dispatch: a feasibility study [PDF]
, 2019 Ewoud ter Avest +8 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.We retrospectively compared intracorporeal and extracorporeal anastomosis in patients undergoing laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer in 46 institutions by using propensity‐score matching. Intracorporeal anastomosis showed advantages over extracorporeal anastomosis in terms of blood loss, intraoperative vascular injury, bowel recovery, and length of
Tomohiro Yamaguchi +92 more
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