Readability and quality assessment of online patient education materials for spinal and epidural anesthesia.

Purpose: Guidelines recommend that health-related information for patients should be written at or below the sixth-grade level. We sought to evaluate the readability level and quality of online patient education materials regarding epidural and spinal anesthesia.

Methods: We evaluated webpages with content written specifically regarding either spinal or epidural anesthesia, identified using 11 relevant search terms, with seven commonly used readability formulas: Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Gunning Fox Index (GFI), Coleman-Liau Index (CLI), Automated Readability Index (ARI), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG), Flesch Reading Ease (FRE), and New Dale-Chall (NDC).

A contemporary systematic review of the complications associated with SURGICEL.

Background: This review aims to summarize the findings from recent literature (2010-2022) reporting on complications that resulted from the surgical use of SURGICEL for intraoperative hemostasis.

Methods: A literature search was conducted using the MEDLINE (OVID), Embase, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials - CENTRAL (OVID) databases. The studies were sorted into case reports and other study types for data extraction.

Normohormonal primary hyperparathyroidism: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: We aim to evaluate the body of evidence reporting on normohormonal primary hyperparathyroidism (NHpHPT) patients to help guide their diagnosis, characterization and treatment.

Background: Normohormonal primary hyperparathyroidism is a term used to describe patients with a normal PTH and elevated calcium levels. There is limited understanding regarding the presentation and appropriate management of these patients.

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Perianal Fistulizing Crohn's Disease.

Perianal fistulizing Crohn's disease represents a severe phenotype associated with significant morbidity. Patients with perianal fistulizing disease are more likely to have a severe disease course and have significant reductions in quality of life. Moreover, these patients are at risk for the development of distal rectal and anal cancers.

Current surgical treatment of intermediate risk differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review.

: Surgical treatment of thyroid cancer has become less aggressive but for many patients, the threshold for performing total thyroidectomy (TT), as opposed to thyroid lobectomy (TL), has remained unclear. Current American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines encourage more individualization of treatment options, which necessitates explicit review of the pros and cons of the different options with patients.: This review focuses on the extent of surgery for treatment of intermediate-risk differentiated thyroid cancer, restricted to relevant literature available after publication of the 2015 ATA guidelines.