Understanding peer support: a qualitative interview study of doctors one year after seeking support.

Background: Doctors' health is of importance for the quality and development of health care and to doctors themselves. As doctors are hesitant to seek medical treatment, peer support services, with an alleged lower threshold for seeking help, is provided in many countries. Peer support services may be the first place to which doctors turn when they search for support and advice relating to their own health and private or professional well-being.

Perioperative and Postoperative Quality of Life in Patients with Glioma-A Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Objective: Few studies have assessed patient-reported quality of life (QoL) in patients with glioma undergoing surgery, and even fewer have provided longitudinal data. Accordingly, there is little knowledge about the changes of QoL over time in patients with glioma. We sought to explore perioperative and postoperative development of generic QoL during the first 6 months after primary glioma surgery.

Accuracy of operating neurosurgeons' prediction of functional levels after intracranial tumor surgery.

OBJECTIVE In the absence of practical and reliable prognostic tools in intracranial tumor surgery, decisions regarding patient selection, patient information, and surgical management are usually based on neurosurgeons' clinical judgment, which may be influenced by personal experience and knowledge. The objective of this study was to assess the accuracy of the operating neurosurgeons' predictions about patients' functional levels after intracranial tumor surgery. METHODS In a prospective single-center study, the authors included 299 patients who underwent intracranial tumor surgery between 2011 and 2015.

Quality of life in patients with intracranial tumors: does tumor laterality matter?

OBJECTIVE Traditionally, the dominant (usually left) cerebral hemisphere is regarded as the more important one, and everyday clinical decisions are influenced by this view. However, reported results on the impact of lesion laterality are inconsistent in the scarce literature on quality of life (QOL) in patients with brain tumors. The authors aimed to study which cerebral hemisphere is the most important to patients with intracranial tumors with respect to health-related QOL (HRQOL).

Morbidity after intracranial tumor surgery: sensitivity and specificity of retrospective review of medical records compared with patient-reported outcomes at 30 days.

Object: Published outcome reports in neurosurgical literature frequently rely on data from retrospective review of hospital records at discharge, but the sensitivity and specificity of retrospective assessments of surgical morbidity is not known. The aim of this study was to elucidate the sensitivity and specificity of retrospective assessment of morbidity after intracranial tumor surgery by comparing it to patient-reported outcomes at 30 days.

Methods: In 191 patients who underwent surgery for the treatment of intracranial tumors, we evaluated newly acquired neurological deficits within the motor, language, and cognitive domains.

Is duration of surgery a risk factor for extracranial complications and surgical site infections after intracranial tumor operations?

Background: Duration of surgery has not been much explored as a possible risk factor for complications in neurosurgery.

Objective: To explore the possible impact of duration of surgery on the risk of developing extracranial complications and surgical site infections following intracranial tumor surgery.

Methods: Retrospective review of 1,000 consecutive patients who underwent planned surgery for intracranial tumors at a single institution.