Journal of the American College of Surgeons
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Improving surgical quality of care requires accurate reporting of postoperative complications. ⋯ Our prospective surgical complication database accurately characterized outcomes after PD and facilitated information gathering and analysis. The accuracy, efficiency, and reproducibility of a prospective surgical complication database favor its widespread use in postoperative complication reporting.
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Few studies have focused on the relationship between provider volume and short-term readmissions among bariatric operation patients. ⋯ There is an important relationship between surgeon and hospital volume and short-term readmission after bariatric operation.
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We sought to determine the extent to which recent increases in levels of gender and racial diversity in the overall resident-physician workforce were evident among core-surgical specialty resident workforces. ⋯ Many demographic disparities between the surgery-resident and overall-resident workforces have persisted since 1996 and will likely perpetuate ongoing surgery board-certified workforce disparities.