Relationship of breast MRI to recurrence rates in patients undergoing breast-conservation treatment.

Purpose: The effect of pre-operative MRI on the in-breast tumor recurrence rate (IBTR) of patients undergoing breast-conservation treatment (BCT) remains uncertain. We began to routinely perform pre-operative MRI in 2006. Our goal was to determine the effect of pre-operative MRI on IBTR.

An Educational Intervention Decreases Opioid Prescribing After General Surgical Operations.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether an educational intervention was sufficient to decrease opioid prescribing after general surgical operations.

Summary Of Background Data: We recently analyzed opioid prescription and use for 5 common outpatient operations at our institution: partial mastectomy (PM), PM with sentinel lymph node biopsy (PM SLNB), laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair (LIH), and open inguinal hernia repair (IH). We found that opioids were over-prescribed.