Why Is Pediatric Surgery Still Waiting for Enhanced Recovery?

It is long overdue for enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) approaches to be adopted by pediatric perioperative teams. Now a global standard in adults, ERAS was introduced in the early 2000s to targ...

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Reimagining the Surgical Safety Checklist Through a Pediatric Lens

This study, endorsed by CAPS and APSA leadership, aimed to gather perspectives from North American pediatric surgeons on how the Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) can be optimized for the contemporary p...

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Mind the Gap: Reported Versus Observed Surgical Safety Checklist Time‐Out Adherence in the Hybrid Operating Room

Endovascular surgery is a high-risk specialty where safety protocols are vital to prevent adverse events. Although WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) implementation showed significantly reduced over...

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Mining the Gap: New Opportunities for the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist

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Adaptation and Recovery Challenges After Ostomy Surgery: Qualitative Study of Clinician Perspectives

Patients undergoing colorectal surgery with fecal ostomy experience biopsychosocial challenges during recovery. We aimed (1) to describe clinician's p…

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Surgeon peer coaching to optimize intraoperative performance: How to adapt for residents

Coaching is a collaborative process where the individual being coached drives their own learning and improvement. Over the past decade, healthcare coaching programs have gained recognition. Within sur...

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Bridging Operative Standards to Clinical Practice: A Case Comparison of Synoptic Operative Report Implementation in Breast Cancer Surgery - Annals of Surgical Oncology

Background In 2020, the Commission on Cancer (CoC) announced a new accreditation standard requiring use of synoptic operative reporting (SOR) to improve the proportion of patients with breast cancer r...

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Distance Traveled by Colorectal Liver Metastasis Patients to the Nearest Cancer Hospital To Receive Liver Metastasectomy

Background Liver metastasectomy for colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM) has been found to be associated with higher overall survival in select patients. However, this aggressive surgical treatment opt...

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The Pivotal Role of Coaching in Surgical Residency: A Scoping Review

Coaching is commonly used in sports and business to direct individuals toward a defined goal. Over the past decade, coaching has gained traction in me…

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Defining re-implementation - Implementation Science Communications

Background The first attempt to implement a new tool or practice does not always lead to the desired outcome. Re-implementation, which we define as the systematic process of reintroducing an intervent...

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In the grip of ‘horror and anger,’ Gawande grows more determined — Harvard Gazette

As global health suffers, his focus on patient-first systems feels more urgent than ever.

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Understanding the impact of racism on surgical outcomes in settler nation-states USA and Canada: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction To improve surgical quality and safety, health systems must prioritise equitable care for surgical patients. Racialised patients experience worse postoperative outcomes when compared with...

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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) consensus recommendations for opioid-minimising pharmacological neonatal pain management

Objective Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) guidelines have been successfully applied to children and neonates. There is a need to provide evidence-based consensus recommendations to manage neona...

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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) consensus recommendations for non-pharmacological perioperative neonatal pain management

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) recommendations for multi-modal, opioid-limiting analgesia have been shown to be effective in paediatric patients. However, neonatal-specific protocols are limit...

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Interventions to Improve Nontechnical Skills in Surgery: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis

Many surgical adverse events are due to failures in nontechnical skills. Improving nontechnical skills has become a priority for surgical training org…

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Characteristics of Surgical Coaching Interventions: A Systematic Review

Coaching is increasingly utilized as an educational intervention for performance improvement in surgeons and surgical trainees. Surgical coaching has …

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Evaluating the Impact of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist on Clinical Outcomes and Implementation Strategies: A Systematic Review

This systematic review evaluates the impact and implementation strategies of the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist (WHO SSC) across diverse healthcare settings since its introducti...

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Importance of social ties in dissemination of Commission on Cancer's synoptic operative report

In 2020, the Commission on Cancer (CoC) launched templated synoptic element documentation in operative reports (SORs) as an accreditation standard to …

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Perspectives of Older Adults Undergoing Elective Major... : Annals of Surgery

qualitative study with adults age 65+ years, 30-90 days post colectomy, using interviews and surveys at a Northeastern U.S. tertiary surgical clinic. Guided by a modified Framework method, we arranged...

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Cross-specialty impact in the adoption of minimally invasive surgery in abdominal surgical oncology at the hospital level - Journal of Robotic Surgery

Colorectal surgeons have been early adopters of MIS. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for colorectal cancers (CRC) has had an impact on use o...

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Acceptability of mobile health technology in elective surgery: A study of postoperative patients

We sought to assess the patient-perceived acceptability of mobile health technology when applied in perioperative care. Although numerous use cases demonstrate the value of mHealth, there is limited k...

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Aging Disparities in Ostomy Surgery

Little is known about the association between age and fecal ostomy surgery trends over time. We aim to 1) determine the rate of fecal ostomy operation…

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