Biography
Elizabeth C. Wick, M.D. is a professor of surgery, Vice Chair of Quality and Safety in the Department of Surgery, and Co-chair of the Department's Research Committee. Dr. Wick is an experienced laparoscopic surgeon and treats the entire spectrum of colorectal conditions including diverticular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, colon and rectal cancer, anal cancer, and perianal disease with a patient-‐centered approach.
Dr. Wick has also contributed to our understanding of almost every aspect of perioperative care from teamwork and communication to organizational culture to quality improvement and measurement. She has been consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2010. She has published over 150 articles around quality and safety and the microbiome and is frequently asked to speak and share her expertise with other hospitals, state hospital associations and professional societies across the United States and abroad.
She is leading a national collaborative, in partnership with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the American College of Surgeons, around accelerating dissemination of surgical pathways across 4 surgical areas (colorectal, gynecology, orthopedics and emergency general surgery) over five years. To date, over 300 hospitals have joined the program and engagement and improvement has been remarkable. Recognizing that measurement is essential to evaluating implementation, Dr. Wick is interested in harnessing the electronic health record to better measure performance and is working on automating surgical site infection measurement using advanced informatics (R01).
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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Cleveland Clinic | Fellowship | 2008 | |
UCSF Medical Center | Residency | 2007 | |
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 2000 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Collaboration Interests
I am interested in:
- PhysicianScientist
Clinical Expertise
Diverticulitis
Diverticular Disease
Colon Cancer
Rectal Cancer
Recurrent Rectal Cancer
Anal Cancer
Colovesicle Fistula
Hemorrhoids
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Crohn's Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
Anal Fissure
Anal Fistula
Enterocutaneous Fistula
Appendicitis
Carcinoid
Laparoscopy
Grants and Funding
- Leveraging Advanced Informatics to Automate Data Collection of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) and Other Surgical Performance Measures | NIH | 2016-09-30 - 2020-09-29 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Role of Stat3 in ETBF Mediated Colitis and Tumor Initiation | NIH | 2014-02-05 - 2016-01-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
- Role of Stat3 in Colonic Inflammation | NIH | 2010-07-01 - 2015-12-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
Research Narrative
Dr. Wick is a recognized national leader in research to reduce surgical site infections and formulating strategies for improving perioperative care. She has published more than 75 articles in this area and is frequently invited to speak and share her expertise with other hospitals. Most recently, she led an AHRQ-funded national collaborative to improve surgical safety and reduce surgical site infections in 250 hospitals across the US and abroad.
Research Interests
Safety culture
Perioperative improvement
Comprehensive unit based safety program (CUSP)
Teamwork
Surgical outcomes
Surgical site infections
Enhanced recovery
Clinical pathways
Research Pathways
Publications
- Admission and Patients Undergoing Surgery at Risk of Patient-Directed Discharges.| | PubMed
- Beyond the block: evaluation of epidurals on length of stay.| | PubMed
- Housing Status and Acute Care Use After Cancer Diagnosis.| | PubMed
- Health Care Navigators for Perioperative Advance Care Planning.| | PubMed
- Association of Homelessness with Before Medically Advised Discharge After Surgery.| | PubMed
- Modifier 22-Is It All Just a Catch-22?| | PubMed
- The Impact of Using Electronic Consents on Documentation of Language-Concordant Surgical Consent for Patients with Limited English Proficiency.| | PubMed
- "It Gives Me Peace of Mind So I Can Focus on Healing": Views on Advance Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients.| | PubMed
- Electronic health record-supported implementation of an evidence-based pathway for perioperative surgical care.| | PubMed
- Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans.| | PubMed
- Advanced Care Planning Content Encoding with Natural Language Processing.| | PubMed
- The value of national accreditation program for rectal cancer: A survey of accredited programs and programs seeking accreditation.| | PubMed
- Barriers and Facilitators to Clinical Practice Development in Men and Women Surgeons.| | PubMed
- Perceived Implications of Compensation Structure for Academic Surgical Practice: A Qualitative Study.| | PubMed
- Electronic health record intervention to increase use of NSAIDs as analgesia for hospitalised patients: a cluster randomised controlled study.| | PubMed
- Provider perceptions of challenges and facilitators to surgical care in unhoused patients: A qualitative analysis.| | PubMed
- Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways: A Qualitative Study of Factors That Distinguished Higher Performing Hospitals.| | PubMed
- Housing Status, Cancer Care, and Associated Outcomes Among US Veterans.| | PubMed
- Reporting of Circumferential Resection Margin in Rectal Cancer Surgery.| | PubMed
- Mastering the Art of Addressing Feedback: Effective Response Strategies for Grant Critiques.| | PubMed
- Reducing Carbon Footprint in Travel to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Annual Meeting: Striking a Balance Between Environmental Impact and Collaborative Opportunities.| | PubMed
- Clinician Review of Advanced Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients Requiring Intensive Care.| | PubMed
- Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures.| | PubMed
- Optimizing Uptake of Multimodal Pain Management After Surgery Using the Electronic Health Record.| | PubMed
- Transition to Reusable Surgical Gowns at a Hospital System.| | PubMed
- Association of Language Barriers With Perioperative and Surgical Outcomes: A Systematic Review.| | PubMed
- Critical Behaviors for Perioperative Improvement Teams.| | PubMed
- A behavioral intervention to promote use of multimodal pain medication for hospitalized patients: A randomized controlled trial.| | PubMed
- Consensus Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Emergency Laparotomy Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations Part 2-Emergency Laparotomy: Intra- and Postoperative Care.| | PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Consensus Guidelines for Emergency Laparotomy Part 3: Organizational Aspects and General Considerations for Management of the Emergency Laparotomy Patient.| | PubMed
- Corrigendum to Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention? [Surgery 170 (2021) pp 1249-54].| | PubMed
- Disruption of National Cancer Database Data Models in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Association of Housing Status With Types of Operations and Postoperative Health Care Utilization.| | PubMed
- Experiences with targeting inpatient advance care planning for emergency general surgery patients: A resident-led quality improvement project.| | PubMed
- Discharge Opioid Over- and Underprescription to Patients after General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.| | PubMed
- Truth of Colorectal Enhanced Recovery Programs: Process Measure Compliance in 151 Hospitals.| | PubMed
- Quality Improvement Initiative Implementation at the Unit or Hospital Level.| | PubMed
- Disparities in advance care planning rates persist among emergency general surgery patients: Current state and recommendations for improvement.| | PubMed
- Bacterial Decontamination: Bowel Preparation and Chlorhexidine Bathing.| | PubMed
- Trends in Surgeon Burnout in the US and Canada: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis.| | PubMed
- Preparing for participation in the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' bundle care payment initiative-advanced for major bowel surgery.| | PubMed
- Missed Opportunities and Health Disparities for Advance Care Planning Before Elective Surgery in Older Adults.| | PubMed
- Invited Commentary: Evaluating Quality Improvement: The Means or the End?| | PubMed
- Using Electronic Health Record Meta-Data to Identify Variation in Trainee Progress Note Writing Patterns: Opportunity to Enhance Systems-Based Care.| | PubMed
- How Can We Improve Surgical Care of Patients Who Are Homeless?| | PubMed
- Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance in Homeless Patients: A Case Report and Policy Recommendations.| | PubMed
- "I Wish Someone had Asked Me Earlier"-Perspectives on Advance Care Planning in Surgery.| | PubMed
- Characteristics and Procedures Among Adults Discharged to Hospice After Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery in California.| | PubMed
- Opioid prescribing practices at hospital discharge for surgical patients before and after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2016 opioid prescribing guideline.| | PubMed
- Longitudinal evaluation of the surgical workforce experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.| | PubMed
- Surgical Care of Patients Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review Using a Phases of Care Conceptual Framework.| | PubMed
- Third year medical student knowledge gaps after a virtual surgical rotation.| | PubMed
- Invited Commentary: Back to Basics in Colectomy Quality Improvement: Refocusing on the Patient.| | PubMed
- Delphi Consensus on Intraoperative Technical/Surgical Aspects to Prevent Surgical Site Infection after Colorectal Surgery.| | PubMed
- Response to the Comment on "The Relationship Between Surgeon Sex and Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic".| | PubMed
- Association of Enhanced Recovery Pathway Compliance With Patient Outcomes.| | PubMed
- Successful Implementation of Enhanced Recovery in Elective Colorectal Surgery is Variable and Dependent on the Local Environment.| | PubMed
- Estimation of Surgical Resident Duty Hours and Workload in Real Time Using Electronic Health Record Data.| | PubMed
- The Clinical Information Systems Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Establishing the Essential Role of Household Extenders for Surgeon Wellbeing.| | PubMed
- Looking Beyond Healthcare-Acquired Infection: How Can Collaboratives Enable Highly Reliable Care?| | PubMed
- Instilling Resiliency in Surgical Education: The Benefits of Longitudinal Medical Student Learning.| | PubMed
- Multimodal Pain Control in Surgery 2020.| | PubMed
- Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention?| | PubMed
- Applying Machine Learning Across Sites: External Validation of a Surgical Site Infection Detection Algorithm.| | PubMed
- The Relationship Between Surgeon Gender and Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Emergency Laparotomy Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations: Part 1-Preoperative: Diagnosis, Rapid Assessment and Optimization.| | PubMed
- Pandemic Recovery: Persistent Disparities in Access to Elective Surgical Procedures.| | PubMed
- All Surgeons Are in This Together.| | PubMed
- Exploring the Experience of the Surgical Workforce During the Covid-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Patient Perceptions on Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Low-acuity Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Operative Bleeding in the Perioperative Period.| | PubMed
- Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing Medical Students' Surgery Clerkship Preparedness During COVID-19.| | PubMed
- Frailty and Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality-Here, There, and Everywhere.| | PubMed
- Rectal Cancer Care: Does One Size Fit All?| | PubMed
- Standardized Care Pathways as a Means to Improve Patient Safety.| | PubMed
- Feasibility of Enhanced Recovery in Emergency Colorectal Operation.| | PubMed
- Accelerating Surgical Site Infection Abstraction With a Semi-automated Machine-learning Approach.| | PubMed
- Integrating Surgical Skills Assessment Into Quality and Safety Measures.| | PubMed
- Technical Evidence Review for Emergency Major Abdominal Operation Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on an academic vascular practice and a multidisciplinary limb preservation program.| | PubMed
- Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19.| | PubMed
- Stress and the Surgical Resident in the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | PubMed
- Using provider-focused education toolkits can aid enhanced recovery programs to further reduce patient exposure to opioids.| | PubMed
- Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community.| | PubMed
- AAAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Abdominal and Peritoneal Pain After Surgery.| | PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Acute Cholecystectomy Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Adopting best practices in post-operative analgesia prescribing in a safety-net hospital: Residents as a conduit to change.| | PubMed
- Comment on "Consider Culture, Provider Characteristics Associated With Outpatient Opioid Prescribing After Surgery".| | PubMed
- High Compliance to an Enhanced Recovery Pathway for Patients ≥65 Years Undergoing Major Small and Large Intestinal Surgery Is Associated With Improved Postoperative Outcomes.| | PubMed
- Response to Comment on "Letter in Response to Soop et al".| | PubMed
- Variability in Opioid-Prescribing Patterns in Endocrine Surgery and Discordance With Patient Use.| | PubMed
- Best Practices in Data Use for Achieving Successful Implementation of Enhanced Recovery Pathway.| | PubMed
- Response to Sarang et al. (doi: 10.1089/sur.2019.248): Response to Reflections on the Complexity of Surgical Site Infection Prevention and Detection from an Organizational Lens.| | PubMed
- Association of Open Approach vs Laparoscopic Approach With Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Colon Surgery.| | PubMed
- The Value of Aggregated High-Resolution Intraoperative Data for Predicting Post-Surgical Infectious Complications at Two Independent Sites.| | PubMed
- Does Perceived Resident Operative Autonomy Impact Patient Outcomes?| | PubMed
- Drs Julio Garcia-Aguilar and Emina Huang: Colorectal Surgeons Advancing the Science of Colorectal Diseases.| | PubMed
- Reflections on the Complexity of Surgical Site Infection Prevention and Detection from an Organizational Lens.| | PubMed
- Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: Focus on Anesthesiology for Bariatric Surgery.| | PubMed
- Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: Focus on Anesthesiology for Hip Fracture Surgery.| | PubMed
- Residents as Key Effectors of Change in Improving Opioid Prescribing Behavior.| | PubMed
- Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: Focus on Anesthesiology for Colorectal Surgery.| | PubMed
- In Response.| | PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery in Patients With Diabetes: Is it Time for a Moratorium on Use of Preoperative Carbohydrate Beverages?| | PubMed
- Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: Focus on Anesthesiology for Total Hip Arthroplasty.| | PubMed
- Evidence Review Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: Focus on Anesthesiology for Total Knee Arthroplasty.| | PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery after Surgery for Colorectal Surgery: A Review of the Economic Implications.| | PubMed
- Evidence review conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: focus on anesthesiology for gynecologic surgery.| | PubMed
- Impact of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons' Research Foundation Grants on Academic Colorectal Surgeons' Career Trajectory.| | PubMed
- Erratum: Author Correction: High-resolution bacterial 16S rRNA gene profile meta-analysis and biofilm status reveal common colorectal cancer consortia.| | PubMed
- The Impact of Anesthesia-Influenced Process Measure Compliance on Length of Stay: Results From an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Colorectal Surgery Cohort.| | PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Acute Appendectomy Conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Variation Across the Continuum of Surgical Oncology Care.| | PubMed
- A Learning Health System Approach to the Opioid Crisis: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.| | PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Effects on Quality Metrics.| | PubMed
- Does Patient Experience Predict 30-Day Readmission? A Patient-Level Analysis of HCAHPS Data.| | PubMed
- Surgical technical evidence review for gynecologic surgery conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Standardization of the Classification of Impaired Postoperative Gastric Function Within the Enhanced Recovery Pathways.| | PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review of Hip Fracture Surgery Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Characterizing Functional Health Status of Surgical Patients in Clinical Notes.| | PubMed
- Statewide Collaborative to Reduce Surgical Site Infections: Results of the Hawaii Surgical Unit-Based Safety Program.| | PubMed
- Low Incidence of Dysplasia and Colorectal Cancer Observed among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients with Prolonged Colonic Diversion.| | PubMed
- Risk of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) following Colorectal Resection Is Higher in Patients With Disseminated Cancer: An NCCN Member Cohort Study.| | PubMed
- Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Coordinates a Pro-carcinogenic Inflammatory Cascade via Targeting of Colonic Epithelial Cells.| | PubMed
- Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways Using an Implementation Framework: A Systematic Review.| | PubMed
- Prognostic and Predictive Clinicopathologic Factors of Squamous Anal Canal Cancer in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients: Does HAART Influence Outcomes?| | PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Elective Total Joint Replacement Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Coordinates a Pro-carcinogenic Inflammatory Cascade via Targeting of Colonic Epithelial Cells.| | PubMed
- Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis harbor colonic biofilms containing tumorigenic bacteria.| | PubMed
- Dedicated Operating Room Teams and Clinical Outcomes in an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery.| | PubMed
- Review of the enhanced recovery pathway for children: perioperative anesthetic considerations.| | PubMed
- Medical Harm: Patient Perceptions and Follow-up Actions.| | PubMed
- High-resolution bacterial 16S rRNA gene profile meta-analysis and biofilm status reveal common colorectal cancer consortia.| | PubMed
- The US Opioid Crisis: A Role for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery.| | PubMed
- Hospital Charges and Length of Stay Following Radical Cystectomy in the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Era.| | PubMed
- Quantification of Resident Work in Colorectal Surgery.| | PubMed
- Outcomes Associated With a Five-Point Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle in Women Undergoing Surgery for Ovarian Cancer.| | PubMed
- Racial and Socioeconomic Differences Manifest in Process Measure Adherence for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway.| | PubMed
- The independent effect of cancer on outcomes: a potential limitation of surgical risk prediction.| | PubMed
- Overtreatment in the United States.| | PubMed
- Enhanced recovery after surgery-Preoperative fasting and glucose loading-A review.| | PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Colorectal Surgery Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | PubMed
- Frailty-Going From Measurement to Action.| | PubMed
- Optimizing an Enhanced Recovery Pathway Program: Development of a Postimplementation Audit Strategy.| | PubMed
- Postoperative Multimodal Analgesia Pain Management With Nonopioid Analgesics and Techniques: A Review.| | PubMed
- Preserved Analgesia With Reduction in Opioids Through the Use of an Acute Pain Protocol in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Open Hepatectomy.| | PubMed
- A comprehensive Choosing Wisely quality improvement initiative reduces unnecessary transfusions in an Academic Department of Surgery.| | PubMed
- Routine Pouchoscopy Prior to Ileostomy Takedown May Not Be Necessary in Patients with Chronic Ulcerative Colitis.| | PubMed
- A Model for the Departmental Quality Management Infrastructure Within an Academic Health System.| | PubMed
- Treating Wisely: The Surgeon's Role in Antibiotic Stewardship.| | PubMed
- Is enhanced recovery enough for reducing 30-d readmissions after surgery?| | PubMed
- Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia and Prophylactic Three Times Daily Unfractionated Heparin Within an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery.| | PubMed
- Characterizing Surgical Site Infection Signals in Clinical Notes.| | PubMed
- Impact of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Fast Track Surgery Pathways on Healthcare-associated Infections: Results From a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.| | PubMed
- Trans-surgical Disciplines Collaboration Is an Effective Strategy for Expediting Quality Improvement.| | PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery Programs Increase Thoracic Epidural Opportunities for Trainees.| | PubMed
- The Effect of Preoperative Pregabalin on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Meta-analysis.| | PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathways and Resident Physicians: Barrier or Opportunity?| | PubMed
- A comparison of trends in operative approach and postoperative outcomes for colorectal cancer surgery.| | PubMed
- Preparing enhanced recovery after surgery for implementation in pediatric populations.| | PubMed
- Outcomes of abdominoperineal resection for management of anal cancer in HIV-positive patients: a national case review.| | PubMed
- Bloodless medicine: current strategies and emerging treatment paradigms.| | PubMed
- Risk factors for wound complications after abdominoperineal excision: analysis of the ACS NSQIP database.| | PubMed
- Bundled Payments for Surgical Colectomy Among Medicare Enrollees: Potential Savings vs the Need for Further Reform.| | PubMed
- A Meta-analysis of Intraoperative Ventilation Strategies to Prevent Pulmonary Complications: Is Low Tidal Volume Alone Sufficient to Protect Healthy Lungs?| | PubMed
- The Effect of Preoperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Meta-Analysis.| | PubMed
- Get on the fast track to patient recovery.| | PubMed
- The Effect of Intravenous Midazolam on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Meta-Analysis.| | PubMed
- Redundant Innate and Adaptive Sources of IL17 Production Drive Colon Tumorigenesis.| | PubMed
- Patient outcomes and provider perceptions following implementation of a standardized perioperative care pathway for open liver resection.| | PubMed
- Implementation Costs of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program in the United States: A Financial Model and Sensitivity Analysis Based on Experiences at a Quaternary Academic Medical Center.| | PubMed
- Reduction of Costs for Pelvic Exenteration Performed by High Volume Surgeons: Analysis of the Maryland Health Service Cost Review Commission Database.| | PubMed
- Association of Safety Culture with Surgical Site Infection Outcomes.| | PubMed
- Initiating an Enhanced Recovery Pathway Program: An Anesthesiology Department's Perspective.| | PubMed
- Sleep deprivation and starvation in hospitalised patients: how medical care can harm patients.| | PubMed
- Clinical Communities at Johns Hopkins Medicine: An Emerging Approach to Quality Improvement.| | PubMed
- The role of fiber supplementation in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.| | PubMed
- Hospital-Level Factors Associated With Mortality After Endovascular and Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.| | PubMed
- Organizational Culture Changes Result in Improvement in Patient-Centered Outcomes: Implementation of an Integrated Recovery Pathway for Surgical Patients.| | PubMed
- Patient Symptomatology in Anal Dysplasia.| | PubMed
- The evolution of perioperative transfusion testing and blood ordering.| | PubMed
- Metabolism links bacterial biofilms and colon carcinogenesis.| | PubMed
- Analysis of fiducials implanted during EUS for patients with localized rectal cancer receiving high-dose rate endorectal brachytherapy.| | PubMed
- Efficacy of education followed by computerized provider order entry with clinician decision support to reduce red blood cell utilization.| | PubMed
- Optimizing perioperative Crohn's disease management: role of coordinated medical and surgical care.| | PubMed
- A comparison of 2 surgical site infection monitoring systems.| | PubMed
- Implementation of surgical quality improvement: auditing tool for surgical site infection prevention practices.| | PubMed
- Perioperative corticosteroid management for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.| | PubMed
- Microbiota organization is a distinct feature of proximal colorectal cancers.| | PubMed
- Enhanced recovery after surgery protocols for open hepatectomy--physiology, immunomodulation, and implementation.| | PubMed
- The Bacteroides fragilis toxin gene is prevalent in the colon mucosa of colorectal cancer patients.| | PubMed
- Bundling for high-reliability health care.| | PubMed
- Decision support tool use in colorectal surgery: what is the role?| | PubMed
- Avoiding immortal time bias in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program readmission measure.| | PubMed
- Improving safety and quality of care with enhanced teamwork through operating room briefings.| | PubMed
- A novel means of assessing institutional adherence to blood transfusion guidelines.| | PubMed
- Risk-adjusted clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in a bloodless program.| | PubMed
- Clinicopathologic Presentation and Natural History of Anorectal Melanoma: A Case Series of 18 Patients.| | PubMed
- Establishing a successful basic science research program in colon and rectal surgery.| | PubMed
- Perioperative glucocorticoid prescribing habits in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a call for standardization.| | PubMed
- Stat3 activation in murine colitis induced by enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis.| | PubMed
- Infection and venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing colorectal surgery: what is the relationship?| | PubMed
- Surgical readmissions: a method to the madness.| | PubMed
- Does close temperature regulation affect surgical site infection rates?| | PubMed
- Surgical site infection monitoring: are 2 systems better than 1?| | PubMed
- Measuring briefing and checklist compliance in surgery: a tool for quality improvement.| | PubMed
- Building a business case for colorectal surgery quality improvement.| | PubMed
- Continuous intraoperative temperature measurement and surgical site infection risk: analysis of anesthesia information system data in 1008 colorectal procedures.| | PubMed
- Nodal status, number of lymph nodes examined, and lymph node ratio: what defines prognosis after resection of colon adenocarcinoma?| | PubMed
- National disparities in laparoscopic colorectal procedures for colon cancer.| | PubMed
- Surgical treatment of acquired rectourethral fistulas: our experience with posterior transrectal transsphincteric approach. Author reply.| | PubMed
- Laparoscopic rectopexy for rectal prolapse to reduce surgical-site infections and length of stay.| | PubMed
- Hospital readmission by method of data collection.| | PubMed
- Bacterial oncogenesis in the colon.| | PubMed
- Patient satisfaction as a possible indicator of quality surgical care.| | PubMed
- Acquired rectourethral fistulas in adults: a systematic review of surgical repair techniques and outcomes.| | PubMed
- Standardized quality performance metrics: beware of the pitfalls.| | PubMed
- Is venous thromboembolism in colorectal surgery patients preventable or inevitable? One institution's experience.| | PubMed
- Avatar-based interactive ileostomy education in hospitalized patients.| | PubMed
- Clinicopathologic Comparison of High-Dose-Rate Endorectal Brachytherapy versus Conventional Chemoradiotherapy in the Neoadjuvant Setting for Resectable Stages II and III Low Rectal Cancer.| | PubMed
- Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections.| | PubMed
- Variation in surgical site infection monitoring and reporting by state.| | PubMed
- Outcomes from IBD-associated and non-IBD-associated colorectal cancer: a Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Medicare study.| | PubMed
- Ureteral injury during laparoscopic colectomy: the need for more information: Comment on "Incidence of iatrogenic ureteral injury after laparoscopic colectomy".| | PubMed
- Colitides.| | PubMed
- Readmission rates and cost following colorectal surgery.| | PubMed
- Shift from pStat6 to pStat3 predominance is associated with inflammatory bowel disease-associated dysplasia.| | PubMed
- PPE, OPPE, and FPPE: complying with the new alphabet soup of credentialing.| | PubMed
- Surgical site infections and cost in obese patients undergoing colorectal surgery.| | PubMed
- Pay for obesity? Pay-for-performance metrics neglect increased complication rates and cost for obese patients.| | PubMed
- Variation in lymph node assessment after colon cancer resection: patient, surgeon, pathologist, or hospital?| | PubMed
- Bacteroides spp. and diarrhea.| | PubMed
- Image of the month--quiz case. Endometriosis.| | PubMed
- Predicting organ space surgical site infection with a nomogram.| | PubMed
- A human colonic commensal promotes colon tumorigenesis via activation of T helper type 17 T cell responses.| | PubMed
- Surgical site infections in a "high outlier" institution: are colorectal surgeons to blame?| | PubMed
- Contemporary surgical management for ileosigmoid fistulas in Crohn's disease.| | PubMed
- Implementation of quality measures to reduce surgical site infection in colorectal patients.| | PubMed
- MUC5AC, a gel-forming mucin accumulating in gallstone disease, is overproduced via an epidermal growth factor receptor pathway in the human gallbladder.| | PubMed
- Comparison of superior mesenteric versus jugular venous infusions of insulin in streptozotocin-diabetic rats on the choice of caloric intake, body weight, and fat stores.| | PubMed
- Calcitonin gene-related peptide partially mediates nociception in acute experimental pancreatitis.| | PubMed
- Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and substance P mediate nociception in acute pancreatitis.| | PubMed
- Localization of calcitonin receptor-like receptor and receptor activity modifying protein 1 in enteric neurons, dorsal root ganglia, and the spinal cord of the rat.| | PubMed
- Neutral endopeptidase determines the severity of pancreatitis-associated lung injury.| | PubMed
- Role of peripheral corticotropin-releasing factor and urocortin II in intestinal inflammation and motility in terminal ileum.| | PubMed
- Transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV-1) promotes neurogenic inflammation in the pancreas via activation of the neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R).| | PubMed