Background Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce length of stay,
complications and costs for a large number of elective surgical procedures. A similar …

Increasing numbers of older patients require Emergency admission under General Surgery
(EGS). This is a group of heterogeneous and often complex individuals with varying degrees …

Importance Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the most preventable cause of morbidity and
mortality in US hospitals, and approximately 2.5% of emergency general surgery (EGS) …

Background National quality programs have been implemented to decrease the burden of
adverse events on key outcomes in bariatric surgery. However, it is not well understood …

Objective: To quantify the impact of individual complications on mortality, organ failure,
hospital stay, and readmission after pancreatoduodenectomy. Summary of Background …

Background To allocate healthcare resources optimally, complication-related quality
initiatives should target complications that have the greatest overall impact on outcomes …

Importance Numerous quality initiatives have been implemented in an effort to minimize the
onus of postoperative complications on clinical and economic outcomes after major surgery …

Background Patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy are at risk for a variety of
adverse postoperative events, including generic complications such as surgical site infection …

Objective This study was conducted to identify the most clinically relevant and costly
perioperative complications occurring in vascular surgery patients. Methods The analysis …

Background We hypothesized that the universal adoption of closed wounds with negative
pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in emergency general surgery patients would result in low …