Racial disparities in postoperative outcomes persist for patients with inflammatory bowel disease under a colorectal enhanced recovery program.

Introduction: Enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) reduce racial disparities in surgical outcomes for general colorectal surgery populations. It is unclear, however, if disparities in IBD populations are impacted by ERPs.

Methods: Retrospective study comparing IBD patients undergoing major elective colorectal operations before (2006-2014) and after (2015-2021) ERP implementation using ACS-NSQIP data.

Burnout is Associated With Emotional Intelligence but not Traditional Job Performance Measurements in Surgical Residents.

Objective: To evaluate whether burnout was associated with emotional intelligence and job performance in surgical residents.

Design: General surgery residents at a single institution were surveyed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and trait EI questionnaire (TEIQ-SF). Burnout was defined as scoring in 2 of the 3 following domains; Emotional Exhaustion (high), Depersonalization (high), and Personal Accomplishment (low).

Alterations in DNA methylation are early, but not initial, events in ovarian tumorigenesis.

We compared global levels of DNA methylation as well as methylation of a specific locus (MyoD1) in ovarian cystadenomas, ovarian tumours of low malignant potential (LMP) and ovarian carcinomas to investigate the association between changes in DNA methylation and ovarian tumour development. As we realized that cystadenomas showed different methylation patterns from both LMP tumours and carcinomas, we verified their monoclonal origin as a means of confirming their true neoplastic nature. High-pressure liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analyses showed that global methylation levels in LMP tumours and carcinomas were 21% and 25% lower than in cystadenomas respectively (P = 0.