Volume 172, Issue 5, 2022-11-1, Pages OFC-1594 (November)

Articles in this issue:

1. Cover 1(with editorial board)

2. Information for readers

3. Contents

4. Information for authors

5. Communication and Collaboration

6. Lymph node yield after rectal resection is a predictor of survival among patients with node-negative rectal adenocarcinoma

7. Who’s to blame for the inadequate lymph node yield?

8. A new operation for gallstones: Choledochoscopic gallbladder-preserving cholecystolithotomy, a retrospective study of 3,511 cases

9. Factors associated with refusing surgery versus planned nonoperative management for rectal cancer

10. Survival outcomes associated with Lynch syndrome colorectal cancer and metachronous rate after subtotal/total versus segmental colectomy: Meta-analysis

11. From chaos to creativity: Designing collaborative communication training for the delivery of bad news

12. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on American College of Surgeons–Accredited Education Institutes & American Society of Anesthesiologists–Simulation Education Network: Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration

13. Mixed reality surgical mentoring of combat casualty care related procedures in a perfused cadaver model: Initial results of a randomized feasibility study

14. Video feedback with error-focused or correct-focused examples in surgical skills distance learning: A randomized trial

15. The effect of an attending versus neutral observer on peg transfer and intracorporeal knot-tying laparoscopic tasks

16. The big five: Studying the surgical personality

17. Defining operative experience targets in surgical training: A systematic review

18. Depth of mediastinal extension can predict sternotomy need for substernal thyroid goiters

19. Prognostic factors and survival analysis of Hurthle cell carcinoma: A population-based study

20. Total thyroidectomy vs thyroid lobectomy for localized medullary thyroid cancer in adults: A propensity-matched survival analysis

21. Endocrine surgeons are performing more thyroid lobectomies for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer since the 2015 ATA guidelines

22. The costs of complications after emergency gastrointestinal surgery in Kenya

23. Addressing an epidemic: Improving guideline-concordant opioid prescribing in surgical patients

24. “Learn from each other”: A qualitative exploration of collaborative quality improvement

25. The catch-22 of promotion: Is becoming department chair of surgery a threat to the triple threat?

26. The undisclosed disclosures: Conflicts of interest in studies related to robotics in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery

27. The desmoplastic growth pattern is associated with second-stage completion and longer survival in 2-stage hepatectomy for colorectal cancer liver metastases

28. Poor utility of current nomograms assessing the risk of intraoperative blood transfusion in patients undergoing liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma and proposal of a new model

29. Impact of tumor burden score on timing and patterns of recurrence after curative-intent resection of hepatocellular carcinoma

30. Impact of malnutrition on outcomes following groin hernia repair: Insights from the ACS NSQIP

31. Pain with sexual activity at 1 and 3 years: Comparing total extraperitoneal with Lichtenstein inguinal hernia repair in a randomized setting (TEPLICH trial)

32. Telemedicine implementation trends in surgical specialties before and after COVID-19 shelter in place: Adjusting to a changing landscape

33. Impact of center volume on conversion to thoracotomy during minimally invasive pulmonary lobectomy

34. The win ratio: A novel approach to define and analyze postoperative composite outcomes to reflect patient and clinician priorities

35. Minimally invasive versus open central pancreatectomy: Systematic review and meta-analysis

36. Role of inflammatory and nutritional markers in predicting complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy

37. Social determinants of health in pediatric scald burns: Is food access an issue?

38. Uniportal video-assisted thoracic S9+10 segmentectomy using a single-direction approach is good for pulmonary function

39. Luminal administration of biliverdin ameliorates ischemia-reperfusion injury following intestinal transplant in rats

40. Development of a preoperative score to predict surgical difficulty in liver transplantation

41. Combined Expert and User-Driven Usability Assessment of Trauma Decision Support Systems Improves User-Centered Design

42. Are trauma surgical societies adequately addressing mental health after injury?

43. A new pandemic and an old epidemic: The impact of COVID-19 and gun violence as measured by years of potential life lost in a US city

44. Trauma video review outperforms prospective real-time data collection for study of resuscitative thoracotomy

45. Delayed fascial closure in nontrauma abdominal emergencies: A nationwide analysis

46. The paradoxical relation between serum uric acid and outcomes of hip fracture in older patients after surgery: A 1-year follow-up study

47. Nationwide analysis of proximity of American College of Surgeons–verified and state-designated trauma centers to the nearest highway exit and associated prehospital motor vehicle collision fatalities

48. Letter to the Editor on: “Trends and outcomes of simultaneous versus staged resection of synchronous colorectal cancer and colorectal liver metastases”

49. Letter to the Editor on: Simultaneous resection of colorectal cancer and liver metastases: Searching for optimal candidates

50. Intrathoracic versus cervical anastomosis in esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: Are these procedures indeed comparable?