Published in American journal of surgery
It is unclear how the Affordable Care Act's state-based Medicaid Expansion (ME) has impacted surgeon selection for colorectal resections (CRS). We performed a risk-adjusted DID analysis on state discharge data of CRS patients aged 26-64 from NY (Expansion) and FL (non-Expansion) before (2012-2013) and after (2016-2017) ME. Primary outcome was use o...
Published in American journal of surgery
Uterus transplantation (Utx) has achieved clinical success but little is known about motivations and experiences of UTx recipients. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 UTx recipients in addition to collecting quantitative demographic and clinical data. Closed-ended interview questions were treated as categorical variables. Thematic anal...
Published in American journal of surgery
The purpose of this study is to assess gender diversity across surgical subspecialties, with a focus on endocrine surgery. We collected publicly-reported data from Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) during the 2017 data period. Student's t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were ...
Published in American journal of surgery
The safety of breast conservation therapy (BCT) has not been demonstrated in large ILC tumors, potentially contributing to the higher mastectomy rates seen in ILC. We queried a prospectively maintained database to identify patients with ILC measuring ≥4 cm and evaluated difference in recurrence free survival (RFS) between those treated with BCT ver...
Published in American journal of surgery
We sought to compare outcomes 6-12 months post-injury between patients discharged to an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) and a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Trauma patients admitted to 3 Level-I trauma centers were interviewed to evaluate the presence of daily pain requiring medication, functional outcomes, and physical and mental health-r...
Published in American journal of surgery
Published in American journal of surgery
With increased attention on the federal budget deficit, graduate medical education (GME) funding has in particular been targeted as a potential source of cost reduction. Reduced GME funding can further deteriorate the compensation of physicians during their residency training. In order to understand the GME funding mechanisms and current challenges...
Published in American journal of surgery
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is traditionally taught to be an antibiotic associated diarrheal infection. This diagnosis is based on the presence of clinical symptoms (usually defined as more than 3 watery, loose or unformed stool within 24 h) coupled with a diagnostic test. There is now a new presentation of CDI, including progression t...
Published in American journal of surgery
Published in American journal of surgery
With information on healthcare providers available on the internet, patient self-referral has become popular. This study serves to evaluate the ease with which patients can locate an Endocrine Surgeon using hospital websites. Websites of the 16 top academic hospitals from The US News and World Report's Hospital Rankings for 2018-2019 were accessed....
