Scholars@Duke
Jared A Blau

Selected Publications

Distribution of wounding patterns in casualties from mass shooting events

Journal Article Trauma United Kingdom · April 1, 2023 Introduction: The incidence and severity of public mass shootings, and mass casualty incidents (MCI), continues to rise. Understanding the wounding pattern and incidence of potentially preventable death after these incidents is key not only to Health Syste ... Full text Cite

Google Trends Highlights a Breast Implant Paradigm Shift.

Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg · April 1, 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

Contextualizing Breast Implant Removal Patterns with Google Trends: Big Data Applications in Surgical Demand.

Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open · January 2022 UNLABELLED: The demand for breast implant removal (BIR) has increased substantially in recent years. This study leveraged large datasets available through Google Trends to understand how changes in public perception could be influencing surgical demand, bo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disparities between Operative Time and Relative Value Units for Plastic Surgery Procedures.

Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg · September 1, 2021 BACKGROUND: Plastic surgeons are evaluated not only by the number of patients served but also by relative value, quantified by the Medicare relative value unit system, which can affect advancement and compensation. Procedures that demand a high operative t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Competency Committees in Plastic Surgery Residency.

Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open · September 2021 BACKGROUND: Clinical competency committees (CCCs) are now an Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirement for plastic surgery training programs. They serve to monitor resident progress and make formal recommendations to program d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient demand for plastic surgeons for every US state based on Google searches.

Journal Article JPRAS Open · September 2020 INTRODUCTION: As a profession, plastic surgeons must meet the public demand for esthetic and reconstructive procedures. Patients search for physicians using Google, which offers insights into patient needs through their search history. METHODS: The Google ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Realism Matter? A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Models for Medical Student Suture Education.

Journal Article Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open · April 2020 BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that medical students trained in suturing using high-fidelity models (cadaveric tissue) would demonstrate greater proficiency when compared with those trained using low-fidelity models (synthetic tissue). METHODS: Forty-three me ... Full text Link to item Cite

Microvascular Anastomoses Using End-to-End versus End-to-Side Technique in Lower Extremity Free Tissue Transfer.

Journal Article J Reconstr Microsurg · February 2016 BACKGROUND: The decision to perform an end-to-end (ETE) or end-to-side (ETS) arterial anastomosis in lower extremity free tissue transfer has not been thoroughly evaluated in a large multisurgeon setting. The authors compared the reconstructive outcomes of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of Resident Participation on Surgical Efficiency and Outcomes in General Surgery

Conference Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2016 Cite

Delayed implant augmentation of breast free flaps.

Journal Article J Reconstr Microsurg · May 2015 BACKGROUND: Two commonly used breast reconstruction techniques are (1) implant-based and (2) abdominal tissue-based procedures. When the two modalities are combined, the result is a unique construct that shares advantages and disadvantages of both approach ... Full text Link to item Cite

Delayed implant augmentation of breast free flaps

Journal Article Journal of reconstructive microsurgery · 2015 Cite

Mammary Adipose Derived Stem Cells in BRCA-Related Breast Cancers

Journal Article Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · 2015 Cite

The impact of local genome sequence on defining heterochromatin domains.

Journal Article PLoS Genet · April 2009 Characterizing how genomic sequence interacts with trans-acting regulatory factors to implement a program of gene expression in eukaryotic organisms is critical to understanding genome function. One means by which patterns of gene expression are achieved i ... Full text Link to item Cite