High Hospital Market Competition Linked to Worse Outcomes and Higher Costs in Complex Cancer Surgery
High hospital market competition was associated with poorer postoperative outcomes and higher hospitalization costs in complex cancer surgery cases. Patients treated in high-competition markets had lower odds of achieving optimal outcomes and incurred greater healthcare costs compared to those in low-competition markets. Geographic disparities were also observed in the distribution of hospital market competition.
Closing a midline laparotomy with small, closely spaced fascial bites prevents more incisional hernias than the traditional large-bite technique, and the benefit lasts beyond two years.
Over five decades, surgery went from the most disruptive research field to the only one where papers, on average, reinforce existing ideas rather than redirect the field.
Members of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons want a say in how surgery will work beyond Earth, and robotics tops their list.
