Consensus recommendations on how to assess the quality of surgical interventions.

Postoperative complications represent a major public health burden worldwide. Without standardized, clinically relevant and universally applied endpoints, the evaluation of surgical interventions remains ill-defined and inconsistent, opening the door for biased interpretations and hampering patient-centered health care delivery. We conducted a Jury-based consensus conference incorporating the perspectives of different stakeholders, who based their recommendations on the work of nine panels of experts.

Combining staged laparoscopic colectomy with robotic completion proctectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) in ulcerative colitis for improved clinical and cosmetic outcomes: a single-center feasibility study and technical description.

Robotic proctectomy has been shown to lead to better functional outcomes compared to laparoscopic surgery in rectal cancer. However, in ulcerative colitis (UC), the potential value of robotic proctectomy has not yet been investigated, and in this indication, the operation needs to be adjusted to the total colectomy typically performed in the preceding 6 months. In this study, we describe the technique and analyze outcomes of a staged laparoscopic and robotic three-stage restorative proctocolectomy and compare the clinical outcome with the classical laparoscopic procedure.

Trends in pancreatic surgery in Switzerland: a survey and nationwide analysis over two decades.

Background: Centralisation of highly specialised medicine (HSM) has changed practice and outcome in pancreatic surgery (PS) also in Switzerland. Fewer hospitals are allowed to perform pancreatic surgery according to nationally defined cut-offs.

Objective: We aimed to examine trends in PS in Switzerland.

Nighttime Cholecystectomies are Safe When Controlled for Individual Patient Risk Factors-A Nationwide Case-Control Analysis.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate if the time of day a cholecystectomy was performed affects in-hospital complication rates and mortality.

Methods: A national quality measurement database was retrospectively studied. Study period was 2010 to 2017.

Appendectomy as Teaching Operation: No Compromise in Safety-An Audit of 17,106 Patients.

Objective: In a surgical career, teaching of surgical procedures plays a central role. In this study we want to evaluate the influence of teaching in appendectomies on the in-hospital outcome.

Design And Setting: Retrospectively, 26,436 cases from the national quality measurement database (AQC) between the years 2009 and 2017 were evaluated using the diagnosis and the procedure codes.

Short-term outcome after appendectomy is related to preoperative delay but not to the time of day of the procedure: A nationwide retrospective cohort study of 9224 patients.

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is among the most common indications for emergency abdominal surgery. The risk of perforation might increase with a delay in treatment. Therefore, appendicitis is considered a surgical emergency, leading to appendectomies being frequently performed off-hours.

Anisotropically oriented electrospun matrices with an imprinted periodic micropattern: a new scaffold for engineered muscle constructs.

Engineered muscle constructs provide a promising perspective on the regeneration or substitution of irreversibly damaged skeletal muscle. However, the highly ordered structure of native muscle tissue necessitates special consideration during scaffold development. Multiple approaches to the design of anisotropically structured substrates with grooved micropatterns or parallel-aligned fibres have previously been undertaken.