Vaginal Cuff Complications After Closure with an Endoscopic Device versus Conventional Suturing.

Background: Proficiency with laparoscopic suturing is often the rate-limiting step in performing a total laparoscopic hysterectomy. Intracorporeal suturing is challenging due to difficulties with needle control and tissue handling. Endoscopic suturing devices may improve operator experience.

Investigating Postoperative Urinary Retention: Risk Factors and Postsurgical Outcomes in Total Joint Arthroplasty.

Background: Postoperative urinary retention (POUR), a known complication following total joint arthroplasty (TJA), remains inconsistent in its diagnostic criteria, prevalence, and risk factors. This study aims to quantify POUR rates, identify risk factors, and assess complications associated with catheterization in TJA.

Methods: A single-center cohort undergoing TJA between January 2015 and December 2022 was retrospectively reviewed.

Palliative and end-of-life care for patients with pleural mesothelioma: A cohort study.

Background: Pleural mesothelioma is a rare and incurable cancer, with complex physical and psychological symptoms. Despite recent advances in treatment, prognosis remains poor (average 8-15 months) with a lack of research on palliative and end-of-life care.

Aim: To examine markers suggestive of quality palliative and end-of-life care, including receipt of specialist palliative care, advance care planning, fewer unplanned hospital admissions at end-of-life.

Less Hospice Use and Shorter Hospice Lengths of Stay for Connecticut Medicaid Decedents with Short-Term and Long-Term Nursing Home Stays Compared with Decedents Remaining in Community Homes.

The relationship between nursing home (NH) stays before death and hospice use is understudied. A retrospective cohort study of Connecticut Medicaid decedents with common hospice diagnoses who died between 2017 and 2020. Medicaid/Medicare claims identified NH stays, hospice use, short length of stay (LOS) (≤7 days), demographics, and diagnoses.