Publications by authors named "R Burchette"
Purpose: Evidence for the use of prophylactic antibiotics in clean hand surgery is limited, yet surgeons continue to administer antibiotics to prevent postoperative infections. We sought to assess the effect of a program directed at reducing the use of antibiotic prophylaxis in carpal tunnel release surgery and elicit reasons for continued use.
Methods: A surgeon leader implemented a program between September 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019 to reduce antibiotic prophylaxis in clean hand surgeries in a hospital system of 10 medical centers.
Introduction: Given the increasing impact of the healthcare cost of hypertension on the economy, understanding the control of high blood pressure is warranted, particularly as it pertains to racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension control.
Objective: To understand the relationship between hypertension control and racial/ethnic concordance, we investigated whether the racial/ethnic concordance between a patient's race/ethnicity and that of the individual's provider is a predictor of high blood pressure control.
Methods: Data was collected for 612,524 patients from Kaiser Permanente Southern California who were at least 18 year old and received a diagnosis of hypertension between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2019.
Purpose: To compare long-term outcomes of high-grade, primary soft-tissue-sarcoma (STS), using Ifosfamide-Doxorubicin vs local therapy alone, in histology-specific sarcomas.
Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed on 127 patients from 2005 to 2018, with high-grade STS of extremity or trunk, >5 cm, that were either Synovial-Cell, Dedifferentiated-Liposarcoma (DDL), Myxofibrosarcoma, Round-Cell-Liposarcoma (RCLS), Undifferentiated-Pleomorphic-Sarcoma (UPS), or Undifferentiated-Sarcoma-not-otherwise-specified (US-NOS), with central pathology review. Ifosfamide-Doxorubicin was generally given neoadjuvant over 5 cycles, followed by radiation and wide excision, with chemotherapy given in 38 patients, while 89 received local therapy alone.
Background: Nephrolithiasis is a classic indication for parathyroidectomy in primary hyperparathyroidism patients; however, the effects of parathyroidectomy on nephrolithiasis recurrence are not well studied. The aim was to determine effect of parathyroidectomy on time to first nephrolithiasis recurrence and recurrence rate per patient-years.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study of patients diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism and at least one episode of nephrolithiasis was performed.
Purpose: To compare 10-year late complications of radical prostatectomy (RP) versus external-beam-radiation-therapy (EBRT) versus brachytherapy (BT).
Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed on 1503 intermediate-risk-prostate-cancer patients treated from 2004 to 2007, using univariate comparisons. Eight hundred and nineteen underwent RP, 574 EBRT, and 110 BT.