Abstract：
:Since its inception in 1994, the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) has been used to compare the performance of all Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals offering major surgical procedures. The program's outcome data are used to identify areas of both excellent and poor performance. The data can also be used to focus on specific procedures, especially high frequency operations such as inguinal herniorrhaphy. Following several successful feasibility studies, the NSQIP has been adopted by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and is being offered nationwide in the non-VA sector. Given the profound decrease in operative mortality and morbidity seen within the VA, it seems realistic to expect similar improvements in global-and procedure specific-surgical outcomes within the non-VA sector.
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American journal of surgeryauthors
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2004-12-01 00:00:00pages
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杂志文章abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of literature concerning general anesthesia and surgery in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). This report summarizes the largest series of surgical cases in ALS during multicenter prospective trials of the laparoscopic diaphragm pacing system (DPS) t...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.11.008
更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine whether acute histologic inflammatory activity at the rectal margin predicts postoperative complications in children with ulcerative colitis following ileal pouch-anal anastomoses (IPAA). METHODS:Patients who underwent IPAA following previous total abdominal colectomy ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.02.054
更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Over a 2 year period, 34 limbs were revascularized in 33 patients. The in situ saphenous vein technique was used. Improved instrumentation and patency rates have encouraged the use of this method. Eighteen patients were insulin-dependent diabetics. The indication for operation was limb salvage in 25 limbs (73 percent)...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(83)90108-3
更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptomatic hypocalcemia remains the main postoperative complication after total thyroidectomy. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of oral supplementation of calcitriol and calcium salts in preventing severe postoperative hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy. METHODS:A consecutive serie...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.04.017
更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Obesity is a serious health problem in the United States today, and surgical treatment is recognized as long-term effective therapy. Minimally invasive techniques are becoming the "gold standard" approach to the treatment of disease, and robotic surgery has the potential to advance the use and development of minimally...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.08.027
更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Differentiating SBO that will resolve conservatively from those requiring surgery remains challenging. Water-soluble contrast administration may be diagnostic and therapeutic. Our study evaluated use of a WSC challenge protocol. We hypothesize that protocol use discriminates between surgical SBO and obstructions which...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.02.034
更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Familial visceral myopathy is a form of chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction in which fibrosis of the smooth muscle of the alimentary tract causes protean symptoms of disordered visceral motility. Based on our 8 year observation of six members of one family with familial visceral myopathy and review of the few well-do...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(85)90017-0
更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Many trauma surgeons and trauma centers use routine exploration of Gerota's fascia (GE) for renal gunshot wounds (RGSW). The purpose of this study was to assess whether RGSW can be selectively explored for patients who undergo exploratory laparotomy. METHODS:Retrospective 10-year review of all patients who ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2015.09.023
更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Following its introduction in 1993, the LAP-BAND (INAMED Health, Santa Barbara, CA) has been used extensively across the world for the treatment of obesity, and data on safety and effectiveness are now available. This review draws on the literature and our own clinical patient base to provide an overview of the early ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0002-9610(02)01179-0
更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The operative approach for esophageal cancer varies from simple palliative resection to extended esophagectomy with 3-field lymph-node dissection or en-bloc esophagectomy (EBE) depending on tumor and patient status and surgical strategy of the surgeon. The merits and demerits of such EBE are yet to be determ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.06.004
更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The field of telemedicine has grown tremendously over the last decade. We present a systematic review of publications on telemedicine as it pertains to surgery, addressing six facets: 1) telerobotics, 2) telementoring, 3) teleconsulting, 4) telemedicine in post-operative follow-up, 5) tele-education, and 6) ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.07.018
更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient factors impact laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) difficulty, specifically operative duration. This study quantifies the impact of patient factors on LC duration. METHODS:The national surgery database (American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) was reviewed for all el...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.01.024
更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Several recent reviews have suggested that aggressive surgical intervention can reduce morbidity and mortality associated with intra-abdominal crises in AIDS patients. We reviewed our experience with 57 AIDS patients with 63 emergent laparotomies performed at 4 hospitals affiliated with the University of California in...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0002-9610(05)80194-1
更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 176 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue has been reported. The tongue base and mobile tongue, believed to behave as two clinically distinct anatomic areas, have been compared and contrasted. Women comprised 25 percent of the patients with tumors of the base of the tongue and...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(83)90230-1
更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Vascular control of the injured retrohepatic vena cava is invariably a surgical challenge. Herein, we describe the technical aspects of inserting a vena cava balloon shunt through the saphenofemoral junction. The advantages of this approach include relative simplicity, maintenance of perihepatic tamponade, and avoidin...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(89)90288-2
更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Academic institutions have increasingly focused on educating physicians and surgeons in concepts of value-based care, including quality improvement (QI). The extent to which QI curricular competencies are addressed in specialty surgical residency training is unclear. METHODS:A survey instrument was develope...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.09.036
更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00
abstract：:By means of intragastric instillation of meat extract, two groups of duodenal ulcer patients were identified--antral responders and antral nonresponders. Antral response was abolished ater vagotomy and drainage or vagotomy-antrectomy. The differentiation would allow for selective surgery for duodenal ulcer patients. ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(77)90355-5
更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Aortoesophageal fistula secondary to a thoracic aortic aneurysm is usually a fatal disease with few survivors reported previously. We encountered 2 consecutive patients who were treated successfully with esophagectomy and in situ aorta reconstruction using cryopreserved homograft that was wrapped completely with oment...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.09.011
更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The accuracy of operative cholangiograms can be increased by radiomanometry. This study identified 17 patients among 198 studied whose choledocholiths would have likely been missed by routine cholangiography. These are almost invariably small stones the fate of which would be conjectural if left behind. In the present...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(77)90305-1
更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Splenectomy results in a lifelong risk of overwhelming infection in the adult as well as the child. This has prompted our current enthusiasm for splenic salvage in trauma patients. A number of alternatives to total splenectomy exist; however, the complications that result from splenic salvage must not exceed the risk ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(82)90556-6
更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gastric restrictive surgery has evolved over the past decade as the treatment of choice for morbid obesity. We reviewed our experience with 289 patients who underwent gastric surgery for morbid obesity. Comorbid diseases included respiratory insufficiency in 19 percent of the patients, hypertension in 36 percent, diab...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(89)90438-8
更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This article reviews the philosophy and principles of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) that the founders of the program had in mind when they developed the program; explains how the philosophy and principles led to the design and statistical methods that were chosen for the program; and review...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.025
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Acute recurrent pancreatitis in the absence of alcoholism and gallstones is a frustrating illness for both the patient and the physician. Over a 10 year period, 33 patients were operated on and found to have a duct of Wirsung entering the duodenum through the fibers of the sphincter of Oddi. Recurrent pancreatitis of ...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(87)90808-7
更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:As medicinal and recreational marijuana use broadens across the United States, knowledge of its effects on the body will become increasingly important to all health care providers, including surgeons. DATA SOURCES:We performed a literature review of Pubmed for articles discussing the basic science related t...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2018.10.053
更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:These experimental studies provide an explanation for the therapeutic value of proteolytic enzymes as adjuncts to antibiotic treatment of contaminated wounds. After wounding, a fibrinous coagulum develops on the wound surface. This coagulum surrounds the bacteria and protects them from contact with sustemically or top...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(78)90299-4
更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Blocking factors are small polypeptide molecules that may appear in the serum of patients with cancer. These factors block the transformation of lymphocytes in culture to nonspecific mitogens such as phytohemagglutinin or concanavalin A and, therefore, may reflect changes in the immunocompetence of the patient. Blocki...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0002-9610(75)90377-3
更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Head injuries are common in the pediatric population, but when an isolated skull fracture is found, there are no guidelines for repeat imaging. This study evaluated the need for repeat head computed tomography (CT) for isolated skull fracture. METHODS:A 10-year retrospective review was conducted of patients...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.11.011
更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Hawaii has the highest incidence of hepatocellular cancer (HCC) in the United States and the largest proportion of Asians and Pacific Islanders. HCC studies generally combine these groups into 1 ethnicity, and we sought to examine differences between Asian and Pacific Islander subpopulations. METHODS:Demogr...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.06.055
更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid usually metastasizes through a hematogenous route to the bone, lung, and central nervous system. Metastasis to subcutaneous tissues and retro-orbital region is unusual. We report an unusual case of follicular thyroid carcinoma with metastasis to subcutaneous tissues in the right tem...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.048
更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress can negatively impact surgical performance, but mental skills may help. We hypothesized that a comprehensive mental skills curriculum (MSC) would minimize resident performance deterioration under stress. METHODS:Twenty-four residents were stratified then randomized to receive mental skills and FLS tr...
journal_title：American journal of surgery
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.09.039
更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00
