Current use of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program surgical risk calculator in academic surgery: a mixed-methods study.

Background: This study aims to quantitatively assess use of the NSQIP surgical risk calculator (NSRC) in contemporary surgical practice and to identify barriers to use and potential interventions that might increase use.

Materials And Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study of surgeons at seven institutions. The primary outcomes were self-reported application of the calculator in general clinical practice and specific clinical scenarios as well as reported barriers to use.

Structured discharge documentation reduces sex-based disparities in statin prescription in vascular surgery patients.

Objective: Perioperative statin use has been shown to improve survival in vascular surgery patients. In 2018, the Northern California Vascular Study Group implemented a quality initiative focused on the use of a SmartText in the discharge summary. We hypothesized that structured discharge documentation would decrease sex-based disparities in evidence-based medical therapy.

Racial and ethnic disparities in major adverse limb events persist for chronic limb threatening ischemia despite presenting limb threat severity after peripheral vascular intervention.

Objective: Racial and ethnic disparities have been well-documented in the outcomes for chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI). One purported explanation has been the disease severity at presentation. We hypothesized that the disparities in major adverse limb events (MALE) after peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) for CLTI would persist despite controlling for disease severity at presentation using the WIfI (Wound, Ischemia, foot Infection) stage.

Endovascular treatment of high-risk peripheral vascular occlusive lesions: a review of current evidence and emerging applications of intravascular lithotripsy, atherectomy, and paclitaxel-coated devices.

Endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease has evolved and expanded rapidly over the last 20 years. New technologies have increased the diversity of devices available and have made it possible to approach even the most challenging and high-risk lesions using endovascular techniques. In this review, we examine the clinical evidence available for several categories of endovascular devices available to treat peripheral arterial disease, including intravascular lithotripsy, atherectomy, and drug-coated devices.

A competency-based model for research training during psychiatry residency.

The Institute of Medicine recently identified a critical shortage of psychiatrist-researchers and highlighted the need for competency-based curricula that promote research training during psychiatry residency as a way to address that shortage. In this article we review extant approaches to research training during psychiatry residency. We then identify five core elements necessary for promoting research training: (1) mentoring, (2) education, (3) experience, (4) time, and (5) support.