Introduction: Gender disparities exist in nonresearch industry payments to U.S. physicians, but detailed analyses specific to surgeons are limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The management of many patients with early-stage melanoma includes sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy for prognostic and treatment planning purposes. While the minimum necessary number of SLNs to examine has been determined for patients with other malignancies, it has not been delineated in melanoma. The current study evaluates risk factors for SLN positivity and the associated number of SLNs that are necessary to examine for appropriate staging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: International medical graduates (IMGs) make up a small but important percentage of the U.S. surgical workforce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The role of systemic therapy in the management of ampullary (AA) and duodenal adenocarcinoma (DA) remains poorly understood. This study sought to synthesize current evidence supporting the use of neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) in AA and DA.
Methods: The study searched PubMed, Cochrane Library (Wiley), Embase (Elsevier), CINAHL (EBSCO), and ClinicalTrials.
Objective: To characterize industry nonresearch payments made to general and fellowship-trained surgeons between 2016 and 2020.
Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments Data (OPD) reports industry payments made to physicians related to drugs and medical devices. General payments are those not associated with research.