Association of housing status and cancer diagnosis, care coordination and outcomes in a public hospital: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: Cancer is a leading cause of death in unhoused adults. We sought to examine the association between housing status, stage at diagnosis and all-cause survival following cancer diagnosis at a public hospital.

Design: Retrospective cohort study examining new cancer diagnoses between 1 July 2011 and 30 June 2021.

Pain and opioid use after colorectal resection for benign versus malignant disease: A single institution analysis.

Background: Studies comparing opioid needs between benign and malignant colorectal diseases are inconclusive.

Methods: Single institution analysis of prospectively maintained colorectal surgery database. Multiple regression analyses done on perioperative numeric pain scores (NPS) and opioids prescribed at discharge.

Ureteral Stents Do Not Increase the Risk for Acute Kidney Injury After Colorectal Surgery.

Background: Ureteral stents are thought to prevent or help identify ureteral injuries. Studies suggesting that ureteral stents increase the risk of postoperative acute kidney injury show inconsistent conclusions. The large ureteral stenting volume at our institution provided a unique opportunity for granular analysis not previously reported.

Early Urinary Catheter Removal After Colectomy for Colovesical Fistula is Not Associated With Increased Postoperative Complications.

Background: Management of the bladder defect during colectomy for colovesical fistula (CVF) and recommendations for duration of urinary catheter drainage are inconsistent. This study aimed to determine if urinary catheter drainage duration was associated with postoperative complications.

Methods: Retrospective single institution cohort study of patients undergoing resection for diverticular CVF from 2015 through 2021.

Below-ground competition favors character convergence but not character displacement in root traits.

Character displacement can play a major role in species ecology and evolution; however, research testing whether character displacement can influence the evolution of root traits in plant systems remains scarce in the literature. Here we investigated the potential that character displacement may influence the evolution of root traits using two closely related morning glory species, Ipomoea purpurea and Ipomoea hederacea. We performed a field experiment where we grew the common morning glory, I.

Belowground Competition Can Influence the Evolution of Root Traits.

Although root traits play a critical role in mediating plant-plant interactions and resource acquisition from the soil environment, research examining whether and how belowground competition can influence the evolution of root traits remains largely unexplored. Here we examine the possibility that root traits may evolve as a target of selection from interspecific competition using and , two closely related morning glory species that commonly co-occur in the United States, as a model system. We show that belowground competitive interactions between the two species can alter the pattern of selection on root traits in each species.