Surgery Department, Hospital

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Alabama coronary artery bypass grafting project: results of a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. 
  • Development of an upper extremity transplant program. 
  • Esophagectomy outcomes at low-volume hospitals: the association between systems characteristics and mortality. 
  • Healthcare technology: physician collaboration in reducing the surgical cost. 
  • Hospital credentialing for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is stricter better? 
  • Impact of business infrastructure on financial metrics in departments of surgery. 
  • In-Hospital Text-Paging Communication as a Surgical Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Little science, big science: strategies for research portfolio selection in academic surgery departments. 
  • Multi-institutional comparison of helicopter transfers directly to the operating room versus the pit stop in the emergency department. 
  • National inpatient complications and outcomes after surgery for spinal metastasis from 1993-2002. 
  • Outcomes following elective percutaneous coronary intervention without on-site surgical backup in a community hospital. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Procedural volume as a marker of quality for CABG surgery. 
  • Productivity measures associated with a patient access initiative. 
  • Safety in the OR: who's in and who's out? 
  • Surgical team behaviors and patient outcomes. 
  • Surgical team member assessment of the safety of surgery practice in 38 South Carolina hospitals. 
  • The complex relationship between pediatric cardiac surgical case volumes and mortality rates in a national clinical database. 
  • The evolution of a successful liver transplant program in 1996: the clinical and administrative role of the anesthesiologist. 
  • The impact of race and insurance type on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. 
  • The teaching hospital's growing surgical caseload. 
  • Trainee Wellness and Safety in the Context of COVID-19: The Experience of One Institution. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Updated compendium offers strategies to prevent health care-associated infections. 
  • What works. Surgeons generate "clean bills" from the point of care.