METHODS: Protocol and registration This review was prospectively registered in the
Prospero International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (2018 ID …

Over the past decade, failure to rescue-defined as the death of a patient after one or more
potentially treatable complications-has received increased attention as a surgical quality …

Background The effects of socioeconomic factors other than insurance status and race on
outcomes after cardiac operations are not well understood. We hypothesized that the …

METHODS This comprehensive review to conceptualize the current state of surgical
disparities research was conducted in 4 major steps; its study protocol is registered with …

Objectives Although low socioeconomic status has been associated with increased risk of
complications after cardiac surgery, analyses have typically focused on insurance status …

Importance Racial disparities in postoperative outcomes have remained difficult to eliminate.
It is commonly understood that socioeconomic status (SES) is an important factor associated …

Given the movement towards value-based purchasing in the United States, health care
leaders need methods to characterize and address the complex effect that social …

Abstract Introduction While disparities in Black and Hispanic and Latino patients undergoing
general surgeries are well described, most analyses leave out Asian, American Indian or …

Objective: To examine variation in “failure to rescue”(FTR) as a driver of differences in
mortality between centres and over time for patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery …

Purpose To investigate national utilization trends of minimally-invasive partial nephrectomy
(PN) and minimally-invasive radical nephrectomy (RN), and to identify disparities in the …