Differentiating urgent from elective cases matters in minority populations: develo** an ordinal “desirability of outcome ranking” to increase granularity and sensitivity …

MA Jacobs, S Schmidt, DE Hall… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Surgical analyses often focus on single or binary outcomes; we developed
an ordinal Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) for surgery to increase granularity and …

The mediating effect of operative approach on racial disparities in bariatric surgery complications

MM Matabele, SF Haider, KLW Matabele… - Journal of Surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction A laparoscopic approach to bariatric surgeries confers a favorable side-effect
profile as compared to an open approach. However, literature regarding the independent …

Sociodemographic variation in the utilization of minimally invasive surgical approaches for pancreatic cancer

A Tran, R Zheng, F Johnston, J He, WR Burns… - HPB, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Minimally invasive pancreatic surgery (MIPS), when selectively utilized, has
been shown to hasten recovery with outcomes comparable to open approaches, but access …

Asian Americans have higher 30-day surgical complications after esophagectomy: A propensity-score matched study from ACS-NSQIP database

R Li, Q Luo, ID Gutierrez - The American Journal of Surgery, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Despite Asian Americans having a heightened risk profile for
esophageal cancer, racial disparities within this group have not been investigated. This …

The Impact of Disparities on Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy After the 2014 Affordable Care Act Expansion: A Retrospective Analysis

A Badrinathan, TA Syphan, A Bassiri, J Linden… - …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on access to minimally invasive
esophagectomy (MIE) is unknown. We hypothesize that greater Medicaid coverage resulting …