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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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…

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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…

stem priorities related to surgery have evolved; the concepts of what constitutes quality care have changed over time. How efficiency and access contribute to safe care, where equity exists as a key o...

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to understand the impact of peer surgical coaching from the perspective of surgeons participating as coaches. Study Design: A concurrent mixed methods study design was used. Participants were recru...

mal implementation strategies for SOR integration. Study Design: Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we conducted semi-structured interviews from December 2021-May ...

Education and support for ostomy are instrumental in surgical recovery and adaptation. This study aimed to evaluate (i) the challenges faced by fecal …

Deciding when to operate is crucial to surgery but difficult to teach. Script concordance testing (SCT) can assess clinical reasoning for uncertain scenarios. We aimed to assess trainee preoperative d...

Peer-led surgical coaching programmes are recognized increasingly as a performance-enhancing tool for surgeons. In contrast to the established application

Congratulations to Soelling et al. for their study on “Using 360-degree Feedback to Identify Actionable Strategies to Improve Surgeon Intraoperative Non-Technical Skills” and recognizing the value of ...

Adverse events in health care are frequently discussed in morbidity and mortality conferences. However, while health care has evolved to be delivered …

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a global initiative comprised of a series of evidence-based interventions in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative surgical phases. When impl...

STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study using the American College of Surgeons NSQIP database from 2012 to 2020. We analyzed patient outcomes before (2012 to 2014) and af...

Background The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is a cornerstone of ensuring the safety and accuracy of communication among interdisciplinary teams in the operating room. Central to the successful impl...

Increasing numbers of caregivers provide support to older adults after surgery, which is associated with stress and negative impacts on their health. Our review questions were:

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.