Scholars@Duke
Hadiza Shu'aib Kazaure

Hadiza Shu'aib Kazaure

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Surgical Oncology

Selected Publications

Priority areas for outcomes improvement among older adults undergoing inpatient general surgery inclusive of geriatric-pertinent complications.

Journal Article World J Surg · November 2024 BACKGROUND: Comprehensive studies on priority areas for improving geriatric surgery outcomes, inclusive of geriatric-pertinent data, are limited. METHODS: The ACS NSQIP geriatric database (2014-2018) was used to abstract older adults (≥65 years) undergoing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primary Care Use and 90-Day Mortality Among Older Adults Undergoing Cancer Surgery.

Journal Article JAMA Surg · October 1, 2024 IMPORTANCE: Multimorbidity and postoperative clinical decompensation are common among older surgical patients with cancer, highlighting the importance of primary care to optimize survival. Little is known about the association between primary care use and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Within a National Multispecialty Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

Journal Article JAMA surgery · September 2024 ImportancePatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly recognized for their ability to promote patient-centered care, but concerted health information technology (HIT)-enabled PROM implementations have yet to be achieved for national ... Full text Cite

A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts.

Journal Article The Lancet. Digital health · July 2024 BackgroundPulmonary complications are the most common cause of death after surgery. This study aimed to derive and externally validate a novel prognostic model that can be used before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonar ... Full text Cite

Medullary thyroid cancer with RET V804M mutation: more indolent than expected?

Journal Article Surgery · January 2023 BACKGROUND: Significant genotype-phenotype variability among multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A patients with a RET V804M mutation has been reported. METHODS: Patients with a RET V804M mutation treated at a single center were identified (January 1996-Dec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Guideline Adherence and Practice Patterns in the Management of Medullary Thyroid Cancer.

Journal Article J Surg Res · January 2023 INTRODUCTION: Little is known about nationwide practice patterns for the management medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in relation to the 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines and their impact on survival. METHODS: Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Salvage Cryoablation for Local Recurrences of Thyroid Cancer Inseparable from the Trachea and Neurovascular Structures.

Journal Article J Vasc Interv Radiol · January 2023 PURPOSE: To demonstrate safety, feasibility, and effectiveness of cryoablation of recurrent papillary thyroid cancer ineligible for reoperation because of scarring, eligible for focal ablation as defined within 2015 American Thyroid Association guideline s ... Full text Link to item Cite

A comparison of NSQIP and CESQIP in data quality and ability to predict thyroidectomy outcomes.

Conference Surgery · January 2023 BACKGROUND: The Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program tracks thyroidectomy outcomes with self-reported data, whereas the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program uses professional abstractors. We compare completeness and predicti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Secondary Hyperparathyroidism: RECENT CHANGES IN THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES AND ASSOCIATION WITH OUTCOMES AMONG PATIENTS WITH SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM ON CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS: THE DOPPS STUDY

Chapter · January 1, 2023 Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is associated with high-turnover bone disease, fractures, cardiovascular events, and mortality among patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). SHPT is characterized by an increase in parathyroid hormone (PTH) second ... Full text Cite

Extent of Surgery for Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Chapter · January 1, 2023 Low-risk differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC) are defined as tumors that are less than 4 cm in size without evidence of extrathyroidal extension or nodal disease (in patients without a family history of thyroid cancer or personal history of radiation to th ... Full text Cite

Outcomes of concurrent parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy among CESQIP surgeons.

Journal Article Am J Surg · November 2022 BACKGROUND: Studies comparing endocrine-specific outcomes following parathyroidectomy (PTx) versus concurrent parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy (PTx + Tx) are few. METHODS: 10,019 patients were selected from the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Im ... Full text Link to item Cite

Scaling and spreading the electronic capture of patient-reported outcomes using a national surgical quality improvement programme: a feasibility study protocol.

Journal Article BMJ Open Qual · November 2022 INTRODUCTION: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are important for research, patient care and quality assessment; however, large-scale collection among the US surgical patient population has been limited. A structured implementation and dissemination program ... Full text Link to item Cite

Role of Thyroid RFA in the Treatment of Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodules.

Journal Article Tech Vasc Interv Radiol · June 2022 Autonomously functioning thyroid nodules (AFTN) are a common cause of hyperthyroid symptoms. While hemithyroidectomy or radioactive iodine ablation have historically been used to treat AFTNs, percutaneous thyroid radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is emerging a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Total Thyroidectomy for Graves' Disease.

Journal Article Thyroid · January 2022 Background: Graves' disease accounts for ∼80% of all cases of hyperthyroidism and is associated with significant morbidity and decreased quality of life. Understanding the association of total thyroidectomy with patient-reported quality-of-life and thyroid ... Full text Link to item Cite

Arterial Embolization for Thyroid Goiter, Graves’ Disease, and Thyroid Malignancy

Chapter · January 1, 2022 Minimally invasive endocrine interventions have the potential to complement and broaden options for thyroid care. Since the initial work in this field, there has been a technological renaissance allowing radial artery access, smaller microcatheter and embo ... Full text Cite

Severe Hypocalcemia After Thyroidectomy: An Analysis of 7366 Patients.

Journal Article Ann Surg · December 1, 2021 OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to determine severe hypocalcemia rate following thyroidectomy and factors associated with its occurrence. BACKGROUND: Hypocalcemia is the most common complication after thyroidectomy. Severe post-thyroidectomy hypocalcem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identifying high-risk surgical patients: A study of older adults whose code status changed to Do-Not-Resuscitate.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · December 2021 BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of data on older adults (age ≥65 years) undergoing surgery who had an inpatient do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order, and the association between timing of DNR order and outcomes. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of 1976 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study.

Journal Article Lancet Oncol · November 2021 BACKGROUND: Surgery is the main modality of cure for solid cancers and was prioritised to continue during COVID-19 outbreaks. This study aimed to identify immediate areas for system strengthening by comparing the delivery of elective cancer surgery during ... Full text Link to item Cite

Postoperative Surveillance in Older Adults With T1N0M0 Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer.

Journal Article J Surg Res · August 2021 BACKGROUND: The frequency and cost of postoperative surveillance for older adults (>65 y) with T1N0M0 low-risk papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) have not been well studied. METHODS: Using the SEER-Medicare (2006-2013) database, frequency and cost of surveilla ... Full text Link to item Cite

Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury After Thyroid Surgery: An Analysis of 11,370 Patients.

Journal Article J Surg Res · November 2020 BACKGROUND: Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury is a well-known, potentially serious complication of thyroid surgery. We investigated factors associated with RLN injury during thyroid surgery using a multi-institutional data set. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient selection and outcomes of laparoscopic transabdominal versus posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy among surgeons in the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program (CESQIP).

Journal Article Surgery · January 2020 BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy can be performed using a transabdominal or posterior retroperitoneal approach. Choosing the optimal approach can be challenging. METHODS: Using data from the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program ... Full text Link to item Cite

Volume-outcome relationship in adrenal surgery: A review of existing literature.

Journal Article Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab · October 2019 The relationship between operative volume and perioperative outcomes after several oncologic operations is well documented. Recent studies on adrenalectomy reveal a robust association between higher surgeon volume and improved patient outcomes. Statistical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer using the eighth edition of the AJCC/UICC staging system.

Journal Article Br J Surg · June 2019 BACKGROUND: The AJCC/UICC classification is widely used for predicting survival in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), but has not been evaluated as a predictor of recurrence. The hypothesis of this study was that the eighth edition of the AJCC system can be u ... Full text Link to item Cite

The devil is in the details: Assessing treatment and outcomes of 6,795 patients undergoing remedial parathyroidectomy in the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program.

Journal Article Surgery · January 2019 BACKGROUND: Multi-institutional data describing remedial parathyroidectomy compared with index parathyroidectomy are scarce. METHODS: Using data in the Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality Improvement Program (2014-2017), baseline characteristics and ou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Surgical Hypoparathyroidism.

Journal Article Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am · December 2018 Surgical hypoparathyroidism is the most common cause of hypoparathyroidism and the result of intentional or inadvertent extirpation, trauma, or devascularization of the parathyroid glands. Surgical hypoparathyroidism may present as a medical emergency. Ped ... Full text Link to item Cite

The impact of age on thyroid cancer staging.

Journal Article Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes · October 2018 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Patient age at diagnosis is a well established prognostic factor for thyroid cancer survival; it is included in the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) thyroid cancer-staging system. This review provides an update on the epidemiolo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Unplanned reoperations after vascular surgery.

Conference J Vasc Surg · March 2016 OBJECTIVE: Existing literature on unplanned reoperation (UR) after vascular surgery is limited. The frequency of 30-day UR and its association with other adverse outcomes was analyzed. METHODS: Patients who underwent vascular procedures in the American Col ... Full text Link to item Cite

Process improvement in surgery.

Journal Article Curr Probl Surg · February 2016 Full text Link to item Cite

The significance of atrial fibrillation in patients aged ≥ 55 years undergoing abdominal surgery.

Journal Article World J Surg · January 2015 BACKGROUND: The Institute of Medicine has identified atrial fibrillation (AF) among national priorities for research. We examine the incidence of AF and its association with outcomes of patients undergoing abdominal surgery. METHODS: Patients ≥ 55 years wh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term results of a postoperative pneumonia prevention program for the inpatient surgical ward.

Journal Article JAMA Surg · September 2014 IMPORTANCE: Pneumonia is the third most common complication in postoperative patients and is associated with significant morbidity and high cost of care. Prevention has focused primarily on mechanically ventilated patients. This study outlines the results ... Full text Link to item Cite

A population-level analysis of 5620 recipients of multiple in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts.

Journal Article J Hosp Med · January 2014 BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of data examining the epidemiology of recipients of multiple in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) attempts, and their outcomes. DATA SOURCE: Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2000 to 2009. Patient characteristics, survi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epidemiology and outcomes of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the United States, 2000-2009.

Journal Article Resuscitation · September 2013 AIM: To examine temporal trends in the epidemiology and outcomes of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) recipients at a population level. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of temporal trends in CPR incidence, survival to discharge, discharge disp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cardiac arrest among surgical patients: an analysis of incidence, patient characteristics, and outcomes in ACS-NSQIP.

Journal Article JAMA Surg · January 2013 OBJECTIVES: To describe the incidence, characteristics, and outcomes of surgical patients who experience cardiac arrest requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: American College of Surgeons-National Surgic ... Full text Link to item Cite

The resident as surgeon: an analysis of ACS-NSQIP.

Journal Article J Surg Res · November 2012 BACKGROUND: Data on the characteristics and outcomes of patients operated on by surgical residents are limited. METHODS: Using ACS-NSQIP (2005-2008), characteristics and outcomes of patients who underwent cholecystectomy, appendectomy, or inguinal hernia r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of postdischarge complications with reoperation and mortality in general surgery.

Journal Article Arch Surg · November 2012 OBJECTIVES: To describe procedure-specific types, rates, and risk factors for postdischarge (PD) complications occurring within 30 days after 21 groups of inpatient general surgery procedures. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: American College o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Simultaneous medullary and differentiated thyroid cancer: a population-level analysis of an increasingly common entity.

Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · August 2012 BACKGROUND: Simultaneous medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is a rare entity. This is the first population-level analysis of the characteristics and outcomes of simultaneous MTC/DTC. METHODS: In the Surveillance, E ... Full text Link to item Cite

Insular thyroid cancer: a population-level analysis of patient characteristics and predictors of survival.

Journal Article Cancer · July 1, 2012 BACKGROUND: Insular thyroid cancer (ITC) is an uncommon, poorly differentiated thyroid malignancy. To date, there have been no population-level studies of the characteristics and outcomes of patients with ITC. METHODS: The authors used the Surveillance, Ep ... Full text Link to item Cite

Aggressive variants of papillary thyroid cancer: incidence, characteristics and predictors of survival among 43,738 patients.

Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · June 2012 BACKGROUND: The diffuse sclerosing (DSV) and tall cell (TCV) variants are considered aggressive subtypes of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) for which data are limited. METHODS: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (1988-2008) was ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medullary thyroid microcarcinoma: a population-level analysis of 310 patients.

Journal Article Cancer · February 1, 2012 BACKGROUND: Medullary thyroid microcarcinomas (microMTCs) are medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTCs) that measure ≤1 cm in size for which there is a paucity of data on incidence, characteristics, and clinical significance. METHODS: Patients who had a diagnosi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adrenalectomy in older Americans has increased morbidity and mortality: an analysis of 6,416 patients.

Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · October 2011 BACKGROUND: The incidence of adrenal tumors increases with age. We examined the impact of older age (>60 years) on clinical and economic outcomes after adrenalectomy. METHODS: Adult patients who underwent adrenalectomy in the Healthcare Cost and Utilizatio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Leopard frogs move their heads, but not their eyes: implications for perception of stationary objects.

Journal Article Neurosci Lett · September 8, 2011 Movement of an image on the retina is necessary for the persistence of vision in vertebrates. Leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) do not show any obvious independent eye movements that could sustain perception of stationary objects when the animal itself is stati ... Full text Link to item Cite

High mortality in surgical patients with do-not-resuscitate orders: analysis of 8256 patients.

Journal Article Arch Surg · August 2011 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate outcomes of patients who undergo surgery with a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: More than 120 hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Obesity is a predictor of morbidity in 1,629 patients who underwent adrenalectomy.

Journal Article World J Surg · June 2011 BACKGROUND: We examined the impact of obesity on 30-day outcomes of adrenalectomy using a multi-institutional database. METHODS: Patients who underwent adrenalectomy in 2005-2008 according to the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Impro ... Full text Link to item Cite