Gender Bias in Clinical Trial Enrollment: Female Authorship Matters.

Background: Despite initiatives to promote equal enrollment of human subjects in clinical trials, females continue to be underrepresented. The goal of this work is to determine if female enrollment in human clinical trials published in 3 high-impact journals from 2015 to 2019 is correlated with gender of first and/or senior authors.

Methods: Clinical trials published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2019, were reviewed.

High Acuity of Postoperative Consults to Emergency General Surgery at an Urban Safety Net Hospital.

Background: Emergency general surgery (EGS) has high rates of morbidity, mortality, and readmission. Therefore, it might be expected that an EGS service fields many consultations for postoperative patients. However, with the known overutilization of emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions, we hypothesized most postoperative consults received by an EGS service would be nonurgent and could be appropriately managed as an outpatient.

Incidence and Cost of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Emergency General Surgery Over 15 Years.

Background: Deep vein thromboses (DVTs) are a significant sequela of surgery and are associated with significant of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Operative emergency general surgery (EGS) cases have been demonstrated to have a greater burden of DVT than other types of surgery.

Materials And Methods: DVT in EGS cases were identified from the National Inpatient Sample-Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project database from 2001 to 2015 Q3 based on ICD-9 code specification.