Effect of Rectal Cancer Treatment Timing Standardization on Patient Outcomes.

Objectives: The National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC) was established in 2017 to decrease rectal cancer treatment variation and improve oncologic outcomes. Initiating curative intent treatment <60 days of first evaluation is one NAPRC standard. We evaluated whether oncologic outcomes improved with timely treatment and factors associated with its receipt.

Surgical Opioid Stewardship: From the Epidemic Through the Pandemic and Beyond.

Background: In response to the opioid epidemic, prescribing guidelines and statewide surgical opioid management programs were initiated in 2018-19. This analysis aims to document the sustainability of a regional opioid stewardship consortium through the pandemic and beyond.

Study Design: From September 2019 through August 2023, 15 NSQIP hospitals in two states gathered opioid-specific variables on patients undergoing 12 procedures.

Robots in the kitchen: The automation of food preparation in restaurants and the compounding effects of perceived love and disgust on consumer evaluations.

Restaurants are swiftly embracing automation to prepare food, experimenting with innovations from robotic arms for frying foods to pizza-making robots. While these advances promise to enhance efficiency and productivity, their impact on consumer psychology remains largely unexplored. We present four experiments that demonstrate how food service automation leads to negative downstream effects (i.

Colectomy in patients with liver disease: albumin-bilirubin score accurately predicts outcomes.

Background: Patients with liver disease undergoing colectomy have higher rates of complications and mortality. The Albumin-Bilirubin score is a recently developed system, established to predict outcomes after hepatectomy, that accounts for liver dysfunction.

Methods: All patients undergoing colectomy were identified in the 2015-2018 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program colectomy-targeted database.

Diminishing racial disparities in the treatment of colon adenocarcinoma.

Background: Prior research has demonstrated racial disparities in the treatment of colon cancer. We sought to determine if treatment disparities persist.

Methods: Patients with colon adenocarcinoma diagnosed from 2012 to 2016 were identified using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database.