Introduction: The July effect is the widely held belief that medical care is compromised at the beginning of the academic year due to transitioning medical trainees. We determined its impact on surgical outcomes in urological surgery.
Methods: The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Database, State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Database and State Emergency Department Database for California were used for the years 2007 to 2011. Patients were identified who underwent surgery in July, August, April and May, and separated into early (July and August) and late (April and May) cohorts. Surgical outcomes for early vs late surgery were compared for academic centers. Adjusted multivariate models were fit to determine the effect of early surgery as a predictor of adverse outcomes.
Results: For major urological surgery July/August timing had no impact on length of stay, 30-day readmission, 30-day emergency room visits, never events, perioperative complications or mortality (all values p >0.05). Similarly, for stone, groin, bladder outlet and cystoscopic bladder procedures, July/August surgery had no impact on rates of urinary retention, emergency room visits within 30 days, clot evacuations within 30 days, perioperative complications or 30-day readmissions (all values p >0.05). At the end of the year cystectomies had increased odds of intraoperative complications (OR 0.63, 95% CI 0.4-0.97) while nephrectomies had higher odds of major complications (OR 0.69, 95% CI 0.53-0.89).
Conclusions: Surgical outcomes are not compromised by having surgery at the beginning of the academic year, despite resident turnover, representing appropriate oversight during this potentially vulnerable time.
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Telemed J E Health
December 2024
Post Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
: To explore the potential of gatekeeping for specialized consultations and patient care via remote interactions with family physicians. This cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary hospital between November 2020 and December 2021, when specialized consultations were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients who were evaluated for remote consultation with family physicians were included.
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December 2024
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Importance: Surgical quality improvement efforts have largely focused on 30-day outcomes, such as readmissions and complications. Surgery may have a sustained impact on the health and quality of life of patients considered frail, yet data are lacking on the long-term health care utilization of patients with frailty following surgery.
Objective: To examine the independent association of preoperative frailty on long-term health care utilization (up to 24 months) following surgery.
JAMA Netw Open
December 2024
Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, Institute for Public Health, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.
Importance: Hospital participation in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) initiative has been associated with modest savings and stable clinical outcomes overall, but it is unknown whether the program performs differently for medical and surgical or procedural (henceforth, surgical) episodes.
Objective: To assess the association of BPCI-A participation with Medicare spending and clinical outcomes for medical and surgical episodes.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective difference-in-differences cohort study utilized 100% Medicare fee-for-service inpatient claims for episodes initiated between January 1, 2017, and September 30, 2019, and included 90 days of follow-up.
Ann Surg
December 2024
Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Objective: The aim was to assess fertility, sexual function and sexual quality of life in males with Hirschsprung's disease (HSCR) in the Nordic countries with a cross-sectional study using self-reported validated questionnaires.
Summary Background Data: Data on fertility and sexual function in males with HSCR are limited.
Methods: This multi-center study targeted all males born between 1970-2003 who underwent pull-through surgery at a pediatric surgery center in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, or Finland.
Tech Coloproctol
December 2024
Department of Faculty Surgery No. 2, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia.
Background: Reduced-port laparoscopic surgery (RPLS) uses the minimum possible number of ports or small-sized ports in laparoscopic surgery. The combination of RPLS and natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) minimizes the procedural damage.
Methods: A total of 17 patients diagnosed with right colon cancer were included: 5 patients in the RPLS + NOSE group and 12 patients in the conventional laparoscopic surgery (CL) + mini-laparotomy (ML) group.
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