High value care education in general surgery residency programs: A multi-institutional needs assessment.

Background: The ACGME mandates that residency programs provide training related to high value care (HVC). The purpose of this study was to explore HVC education in general surgery residency programs.

Methods: An electronic survey was distributed to general surgery residents in geographically diverse programs.

What is global surgery? Identifying misconceptions among health professionals.

Background: Global surgery has emerged as a new field within academic surgery. Despite attempts to provide a common definition, it is unclear whether health professionals understand what is meant by the term "global surgery." This study aims to characterize current understanding of global surgery among healthcare workers.

Evaluation of Accredited Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Websites.

Objectives: Surgical residents are increasingly pursuing fellowships and rely heavily on fellowship programs' web sites as a primary source of information. Accessibility, quality, and content of a program web site can encourage or deter an applicant from applying to a particular program. The goal of this study was to perform an analysis of trauma, surgical critical care, and acute care surgery fellowship program web sites.

Service vs education: situational and perceptional differences in surgery residency.

Objective: This study determined whether situational or perceptional differences exist when trying to define what constitutes "service" and "education" in surgery residency in relation to the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) survey.

Design: An institutional review board-approved, single institute, cross-sectional study was conducted through a survey. Participants were asked to rate common resident tasks.

Missed surgical intensive care unit billing: potential financial impact of 24/7 faculty presence.

Background: To efficiently capture evaluation and management (E&M) and procedural billing in our surgical intensive care unit (SICU), we have developed an electronic billing system that links to the electronic medical record (EMR). In this system, only notes electronically signed and coded by an attending generate billing charges. We hypothesized that capture of missed billing during nighttime and weekends might be sufficient to subsidize 24/7 in-house attending coverage.

Estimated height, weight, and body mass index: implications for research and patient safety.

Background: Research suggests that weight influences patient care and outcomes. Health-care providers (HCPs) sometimes rely on patient self-reports or HCP estimates of height and weight. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of self-reported height and weight and HCP estimations of height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) classification when compared with measured height, weight, and calculated BMI.

Splenic artery-to-superior mesenteric artery bypass for chronic mesenteric ischemia--a case report.

Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) is a serious vascular condition that if left untreated may progress to acute ischemia resulting in bowel necrosis and high surgical morbidity/mortality rates. Elective intervention has been shown to prevent this progression and relieve symptoms. Current open surgical intervention involves arterial bypass using a vein or synthetic graft conduit with the inflow originating from the aorta or iliac artery.