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What drives long-term survival of rectal cancer after resection? A retrospective study from @MohamedAlyMD2 and @ZhiVenFongMD found the quality metric "textbook outcome" was highly protective and reduced mortality 40%, independent of hospital case volume.📚

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RT @YvesSonnay: Healthcare Priorities for Surgical Care in Canada .@MaryEBrindle @AriadneLabs @UCalgaryMed @SickKid….

Intraoperative cholangiograms are a valuable tool if correctly interpreted. Synoptic reporting, a highly structured form of documentation, can promote thorough, deliberate intraoperative analysis. Check out the ABCDEF template proposed by @MBosleyMD et al!.

A multi-center retrospective European study from the MIRACLE collaborate research group found over 90% of ileoanal pouch patients were stoma-free at one year after surgery. Predictive factors included close rectal dissection and high volume centers.

How does fragmented trauma care impact outcomes? A study from @DavidASpain and @JeffChoi01 found 28% of trauma patient readmissions within 90 days occur at non-index hospitals and that fragmented care has higher odds of major complications and mortality.

Firearm violence is a public health crisis. @ColleenNofi and @drchethansathya found firearm injuries were associated with higher rates of intervention, longer admissions, and increased costs, placing an unprecedented burden on both patients and the system.

High volume trauma centers have higher rates of procedural interventions, regardless of verified level.🔪🩸Does this represent a resource distribution mismatch or difference in practice patterns? Could outcomes, training, or skill maintenance be impacted?

Read the latest Surgical Perspectives from @OrlyFarber and @AmandaJReich! Artificial intelligence can boost qualitative surgical research when the 5Ts are applied: Tandem Use, Targeted Application, Training/Testing, Triple Check, and Transparency. 🖥️📈✅.

Does timing of chemo impact patient-reported outcomes for very low-lying cT3 rectal cancer? An RCT by Ito et al found neoadjuvant chemo improved recurrence-free survival compared to adjuvant chemo with no difference in local recurrence or overall survival.

Does post-operative resource utilization vary based on sex of operating physician? 🔪💰 A retrospective study by Heybati et al (@WallisCJD) found patients of male surgeons had higher resource utilization driven predominately by increased use of home care.

Use of federated models can overcome data privacy concerns while increasing the size and diversity of data used for model development. Work by @_TylerLoftus and @AzraBihorac's group shows federated models effectively predicted post-operative complications

RT @IUCancerCenter: The cancer center’s Anthony D. Yang, MD, FACS, Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, and colleagues contributed to an article publishe….

RT @AnnalsofSurgery: 1/5 🎉 Tonight, we celebrate Dr. Keith Lillemoe, MD, as @AnnalsofSurgery heads into its 140th year! As Editor-in-Chief….

Studying staple heights in robotic sleeve gastrectomy. 🤖📏 Use of white loads has increased and has similar complication rates, slightly shorter length of stay, and similar resource utilization compared to non-white loads.

Surgeon perceptions of risk calculators in emergency general surgery identify benefits and drawbacks.⚖️🩺 When optimal treatment is not clear, risk calculators can validate surgeon gestalt and enhance shared decision making if convenient and easy to use.

There's no time like mid-April to step up our game and highlight the excellent work published in Annals of Surgery Open! Plus, who doesn't love full-length articles you can read without an institutional log in? Follow us and help us catch up to @AnnalsofSurgery! It'll be fun.

RT @rhhollis: Hot off press: Top 11 Barriers to effective perioperative ostomy care and education = Guiding intervention development -- 3….

RT @VUMCDiscoveries: A new study reported in @AnnalsOpen suggests that bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery, may help reduc….

RT @lmfunk2: @AnnalsOpen Haha. Touché. My VA and UW computers really do offer optimal screen time for all of the fantastic manuscripts that….