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
Clinical Trials
- I CAN DO Surgical ACP (NCT06090552)Related Conditions: End of Life| Start Date: | End Date:
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
- Housing Status and Acute Care Use After Cancer Diagnosis.| | View in PubMed
- Health Care Navigators for Perioperative Advance Care Planning.| | View in PubMed
- Association of Homelessness with Before Medically Advised Discharge After Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Beyond the block: evaluation of epidurals on length of stay.| | View in PubMed
- Modifier 22-Is It All Just a Catch-22?| | View in PubMed
- The Impact of Using Electronic Consents on Documentation of Language-Concordant Surgical Consent for Patients with Limited English Proficiency.| | View in PubMed
- "It Gives Me Peace of Mind So I Can Focus on Healing": Views on Advance Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients.| | View in PubMed
- Electronic health record-supported implementation of an evidence-based pathway for perioperative surgical care.| | View in PubMed
- Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans.| | View in PubMed
- Advanced Care Planning Content Encoding with Natural Language Processing.| | View in PubMed
- The value of national accreditation program for rectal cancer: A survey of accredited programs and programs seeking accreditation.| | View in PubMed
- Barriers and Facilitators to Clinical Practice Development in Men and Women Surgeons.| | View in PubMed
- Perceived Implications of Compensation Structure for Academic Surgical Practice: A Qualitative Study.| | View in PubMed
- Electronic health record intervention to increase use of NSAIDs as analgesia for hospitalised patients: a cluster randomised controlled study.| | View in PubMed
- Provider perceptions of challenges and facilitators to surgical care in unhoused patients: A qualitative analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways: A Qualitative Study of Factors That Distinguished Higher Performing Hospitals.| | View in PubMed
- Housing Status, Cancer Care, and Associated Outcomes Among US Veterans.| | View in PubMed
- Reporting of Circumferential Resection Margin in Rectal Cancer Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Mastering the Art of Addressing Feedback: Effective Response Strategies for Grant Critiques.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Clinician Review of Advanced Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients Requiring Intensive Care.| | View in PubMed
- Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures.| | View in PubMed
- Optimizing Uptake of Multimodal Pain Management After Surgery Using the Electronic Health Record.| | View in PubMed
- Transition to Reusable Surgical Gowns at a Hospital System.| | View in PubMed
- Association of Language Barriers With Perioperative and Surgical Outcomes: A Systematic Review.| | View in PubMed
- Critical Behaviors for Perioperative Improvement Teams.| | View in PubMed
- A behavioral intervention to promote use of multimodal pain medication for hospitalized patients: A randomized controlled trial.| | View in PubMed
- Consensus Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Emergency Laparotomy Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations Part 2-Emergency Laparotomy: Intra- and Postoperative Care.| | View in 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.| | View in 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].| | View in PubMed
- Disruption of National Cancer Database Data Models in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Association of Housing Status With Types of Operations and Postoperative Health Care Utilization.| | View in PubMed
- Experiences with targeting inpatient advance care planning for emergency general surgery patients: A resident-led quality improvement project.| | View in PubMed
- Discharge Opioid Over- and Underprescription to Patients after General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.| | View in PubMed
- Truth of Colorectal Enhanced Recovery Programs: Process Measure Compliance in 151 Hospitals.| | View in PubMed
- Quality Improvement Initiative Implementation at the Unit or Hospital Level.| | View in PubMed
- Disparities in advance care planning rates persist among emergency general surgery patients: Current state and recommendations for improvement.| | View in PubMed
- Bacterial Decontamination: Bowel Preparation and Chlorhexidine Bathing.| | View in PubMed
- Trends in Surgeon Burnout in the US and Canada: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Preparing for participation in the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' bundle care payment initiative-advanced for major bowel surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Missed Opportunities and Health Disparities for Advance Care Planning Before Elective Surgery in Older Adults.| | View in PubMed
- Invited Commentary: Evaluating Quality Improvement: The Means or the End?| | View in PubMed
- Using Electronic Health Record Meta-Data to Identify Variation in Trainee Progress Note Writing Patterns: Opportunity to Enhance Systems-Based Care.| | View in PubMed
- How Can We Improve Surgical Care of Patients Who Are Homeless?| | View in PubMed
- Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance in Homeless Patients: A Case Report and Policy Recommendations.| | View in PubMed
- "I Wish Someone had Asked Me Earlier"-Perspectives on Advance Care Planning in Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Characteristics and Procedures Among Adults Discharged to Hospice After Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery in California.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Longitudinal evaluation of the surgical workforce experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical Care of Patients Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review Using a Phases of Care Conceptual Framework.| | View in PubMed
- Third year medical student knowledge gaps after a virtual surgical rotation.| | View in PubMed
- Invited Commentary: Back to Basics in Colectomy Quality Improvement: Refocusing on the Patient.| | View in PubMed
- Delphi Consensus on Intraoperative Technical/Surgical Aspects to Prevent Surgical Site Infection after Colorectal Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Response to the Comment on "The Relationship Between Surgeon Sex and Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic".| | View in PubMed
- Association of Enhanced Recovery Pathway Compliance With Patient Outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Successful Implementation of Enhanced Recovery in Elective Colorectal Surgery is Variable and Dependent on the Local Environment.| | View in PubMed
- Estimation of Surgical Resident Duty Hours and Workload in Real Time Using Electronic Health Record Data.| | View in PubMed
- The Clinical Information Systems Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Establishing the Essential Role of Household Extenders for Surgeon Wellbeing.| | View in PubMed
- Looking Beyond Healthcare-Acquired Infection: How Can Collaboratives Enable Highly Reliable Care?| | View in PubMed
- Instilling Resiliency in Surgical Education: The Benefits of Longitudinal Medical Student Learning.| | View in PubMed
- Multimodal Pain Control in Surgery 2020.| | View in PubMed
- Surviving traumatic injury, only to die of acute drug poisoning: Should trauma centers be a path for intervention?| | View in PubMed
- Applying Machine Learning Across Sites: External Validation of a Surgical Site Infection Detection Algorithm.| | View in PubMed
- The Relationship Between Surgeon Gender and Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Emergency Laparotomy Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations: Part 1-Preoperative: Diagnosis, Rapid Assessment and Optimization.| | View in PubMed
- Pandemic Recovery: Persistent Disparities in Access to Elective Surgical Procedures.| | View in PubMed
- All Surgeons Are in This Together.| | View in PubMed
- Exploring the Experience of the Surgical Workforce During the Covid-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Patient Perceptions on Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Low-acuity Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Operative Bleeding in the Perioperative Period.| | View in PubMed
- Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing Medical Students' Surgery Clerkship Preparedness During COVID-19.| | View in PubMed
- Frailty and Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality-Here, There, and Everywhere.| | View in PubMed
- Rectal Cancer Care: Does One Size Fit All?| | View in PubMed
- Standardized Care Pathways as a Means to Improve Patient Safety.| | View in PubMed
- Feasibility of Enhanced Recovery in Emergency Colorectal Operation.| | View in PubMed
- Accelerating Surgical Site Infection Abstraction With a Semi-automated Machine-learning Approach.| | View in PubMed
- Integrating Surgical Skills Assessment Into Quality and Safety Measures.| | View in PubMed
- Technical Evidence Review for Emergency Major Abdominal Operation Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on an academic vascular practice and a multidisciplinary limb preservation program.| | View in PubMed
- Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19.| | View in PubMed
- Stress and the Surgical Resident in the COVID-19 Pandemic.| | View in PubMed
- Using provider-focused education toolkits can aid enhanced recovery programs to further reduce patient exposure to opioids.| | View in PubMed
- Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community.| | View in PubMed
- AAAPT Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Abdominal and Peritoneal Pain After Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Acute Cholecystectomy Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | View in PubMed
- Adopting best practices in post-operative analgesia prescribing in a safety-net hospital: Residents as a conduit to change.| | View in PubMed
- Comment on "Consider Culture, Provider Characteristics Associated With Outpatient Opioid Prescribing After Surgery".| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Response to Comment on "Letter in Response to Soop et al".| | View in PubMed
- Variability in Opioid-Prescribing Patterns in Endocrine Surgery and Discordance With Patient Use.| | View in PubMed
- Best Practices in Data Use for Achieving Successful Implementation of Enhanced Recovery Pathway.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Association of Open Approach vs Laparoscopic Approach With Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Colon Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- The Value of Aggregated High-Resolution Intraoperative Data for Predicting Post-Surgical Infectious Complications at Two Independent Sites.| | View in PubMed
- Does Perceived Resident Operative Autonomy Impact Patient Outcomes?| | View in PubMed
- Drs Julio Garcia-Aguilar and Emina Huang: Colorectal Surgeons Advancing the Science of Colorectal Diseases.| | View in PubMed
- Reflections on the Complexity of Surgical Site Infection Prevention and Detection from an Organizational Lens.| | View in 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.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Residents as Key Effectors of Change in Improving Opioid Prescribing Behavior.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- In Response.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery in Patients With Diabetes: Is it Time for a Moratorium on Use of Preoperative Carbohydrate Beverages?| | View in 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.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery after Surgery for Colorectal Surgery: A Review of the Economic Implications.| | View in PubMed
- Evidence review conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: focus on anesthesiology for gynecologic surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons' Research Foundation Grants on Academic Colorectal Surgeons' Career Trajectory.| | View in PubMed
- Erratum: Author Correction: High-resolution bacterial 16S rRNA gene profile meta-analysis and biofilm status reveal common colorectal cancer consortia.| | View in PubMed
- The Impact of Anesthesia-Influenced Process Measure Compliance on Length of Stay: Results From an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Colorectal Surgery Cohort.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Variation Across the Continuum of Surgical Oncology Care.| | View in PubMed
- A Learning Health System Approach to the Opioid Crisis: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Effects on Quality Metrics.| | View in PubMed
- Does Patient Experience Predict 30-Day Readmission? A Patient-Level Analysis of HCAHPS Data.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Standardization of the Classification of Impaired Postoperative Gastric Function Within the Enhanced Recovery Pathways.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review of Hip Fracture Surgery Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | View in PubMed
- Characterizing Functional Health Status of Surgical Patients in Clinical Notes.| | View in PubMed
- Statewide Collaborative to Reduce Surgical Site Infections: Results of the Hawaii Surgical Unit-Based Safety Program.| | View in PubMed
- Low Incidence of Dysplasia and Colorectal Cancer Observed among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients with Prolonged Colonic Diversion.| | View in PubMed
- Risk of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) following Colorectal Resection Is Higher in Patients With Disseminated Cancer: An NCCN Member Cohort Study.| | View in PubMed
- Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Coordinates a Pro-carcinogenic Inflammatory Cascade via Targeting of Colonic Epithelial Cells.| | View in PubMed
- Barriers to and Facilitators of Implementing Enhanced Recovery Pathways Using an Implementation Framework: A Systematic Review.| | View in PubMed
- Prognostic and Predictive Clinicopathologic Factors of Squamous Anal Canal Cancer in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients: Does HAART Influence Outcomes?| | View in PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Elective Total Joint Replacement Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | View in PubMed
- Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Coordinates a Pro-carcinogenic Inflammatory Cascade via Targeting of Colonic Epithelial Cells.| | View in PubMed
- Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis harbor colonic biofilms containing tumorigenic bacteria.| | View in PubMed
- Dedicated Operating Room Teams and Clinical Outcomes in an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Review of the enhanced recovery pathway for children: perioperative anesthetic considerations.| | View in PubMed
- Medical Harm: Patient Perceptions and Follow-up Actions.| | View in PubMed
- High-resolution bacterial 16S rRNA gene profile meta-analysis and biofilm status reveal common colorectal cancer consortia.| | View in PubMed
- The US Opioid Crisis: A Role for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Hospital Charges and Length of Stay Following Radical Cystectomy in the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Era.| | View in PubMed
- Quantification of Resident Work in Colorectal Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes Associated With a Five-Point Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle in Women Undergoing Surgery for Ovarian Cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Racial and Socioeconomic Differences Manifest in Process Measure Adherence for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway.| | View in PubMed
- The independent effect of cancer on outcomes: a potential limitation of surgical risk prediction.| | View in PubMed
- Overtreatment in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced recovery after surgery-Preoperative fasting and glucose loading-A review.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical Technical Evidence Review for Colorectal Surgery Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.| | View in PubMed
- Frailty-Going From Measurement to Action.| | View in PubMed
- Optimizing an Enhanced Recovery Pathway Program: Development of a Postimplementation Audit Strategy.| | View in PubMed
- Postoperative Multimodal Analgesia Pain Management With Nonopioid Analgesics and Techniques: A Review.| | View in PubMed
- Preserved Analgesia With Reduction in Opioids Through the Use of an Acute Pain Protocol in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for Open Hepatectomy.| | View in PubMed
- A comprehensive Choosing Wisely quality improvement initiative reduces unnecessary transfusions in an Academic Department of Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Routine Pouchoscopy Prior to Ileostomy Takedown May Not Be Necessary in Patients with Chronic Ulcerative Colitis.| | View in PubMed
- A Model for the Departmental Quality Management Infrastructure Within an Academic Health System.| | View in PubMed
- Treating Wisely: The Surgeon's Role in Antibiotic Stewardship.| | View in PubMed
- Is enhanced recovery enough for reducing 30-d readmissions after surgery?| | View in PubMed
- Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia and Prophylactic Three Times Daily Unfractionated Heparin Within an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Characterizing Surgical Site Infection Signals in Clinical Notes.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Fast Track Surgery Pathways on Healthcare-associated Infections: Results From a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Trans-surgical Disciplines Collaboration Is an Effective Strategy for Expediting Quality Improvement.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery Programs Increase Thoracic Epidural Opportunities for Trainees.| | View in PubMed
- The Effect of Preoperative Pregabalin on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Meta-analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Pathways and Resident Physicians: Barrier or Opportunity?| | View in PubMed
- A comparison of trends in operative approach and postoperative outcomes for colorectal cancer surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Preparing enhanced recovery after surgery for implementation in pediatric populations.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes of abdominoperineal resection for management of anal cancer in HIV-positive patients: a national case review.| | View in PubMed
- Bloodless medicine: current strategies and emerging treatment paradigms.| | View in PubMed
- Risk factors for wound complications after abdominoperineal excision: analysis of the ACS NSQIP database.| | View in PubMed
- Bundled Payments for Surgical Colectomy Among Medicare Enrollees: Potential Savings vs the Need for Further Reform.| | View in PubMed
- A Meta-analysis of Intraoperative Ventilation Strategies to Prevent Pulmonary Complications: Is Low Tidal Volume Alone Sufficient to Protect Healthy Lungs?| | View in PubMed
- The Effect of Preoperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Meta-Analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Get on the fast track to patient recovery.| | View in PubMed
- The Effect of Intravenous Midazolam on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Meta-Analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Redundant Innate and Adaptive Sources of IL17 Production Drive Colon Tumorigenesis.| | View in PubMed
- Patient outcomes and provider perceptions following implementation of a standardized perioperative care pathway for open liver resection.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Reduction of Costs for Pelvic Exenteration Performed by High Volume Surgeons: Analysis of the Maryland Health Service Cost Review Commission Database.| | View in PubMed
- Association of Safety Culture with Surgical Site Infection Outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Initiating an Enhanced Recovery Pathway Program: An Anesthesiology Department's Perspective.| | View in PubMed
- Sleep deprivation and starvation in hospitalised patients: how medical care can harm patients.| | View in PubMed
- Clinical Communities at Johns Hopkins Medicine: An Emerging Approach to Quality Improvement.| | View in PubMed
- The role of fiber supplementation in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.| | View in PubMed
- Hospital-Level Factors Associated With Mortality After Endovascular and Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.| | View in PubMed
- Organizational Culture Changes Result in Improvement in Patient-Centered Outcomes: Implementation of an Integrated Recovery Pathway for Surgical Patients.| | View in PubMed
- Patient Symptomatology in Anal Dysplasia.| | View in PubMed
- The evolution of perioperative transfusion testing and blood ordering.| | View in PubMed
- Metabolism links bacterial biofilms and colon carcinogenesis.| | View in PubMed
- Analysis of fiducials implanted during EUS for patients with localized rectal cancer receiving high-dose rate endorectal brachytherapy.| | View in PubMed
- Efficacy of education followed by computerized provider order entry with clinician decision support to reduce red blood cell utilization.| | View in PubMed
- Optimizing perioperative Crohn's disease management: role of coordinated medical and surgical care.| | View in PubMed
- A comparison of 2 surgical site infection monitoring systems.| | View in PubMed
- Implementation of surgical quality improvement: auditing tool for surgical site infection prevention practices.| | View in PubMed
- Perioperative corticosteroid management for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.| | View in PubMed
- Microbiota organization is a distinct feature of proximal colorectal cancers.| | View in PubMed
- Enhanced recovery after surgery protocols for open hepatectomy--physiology, immunomodulation, and implementation.| | View in PubMed
- The Bacteroides fragilis toxin gene is prevalent in the colon mucosa of colorectal cancer patients.| | View in PubMed
- Bundling for high-reliability health care.| | View in PubMed
- Decision support tool use in colorectal surgery: what is the role?| | View in PubMed
- Avoiding immortal time bias in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program readmission measure.| | View in PubMed
- Improving safety and quality of care with enhanced teamwork through operating room briefings.| | View in PubMed
- A novel means of assessing institutional adherence to blood transfusion guidelines.| | View in PubMed
- Risk-adjusted clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in a bloodless program.| | View in PubMed
- Clinicopathologic Presentation and Natural History of Anorectal Melanoma: A Case Series of 18 Patients.| | View in PubMed
- Establishing a successful basic science research program in colon and rectal surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Perioperative glucocorticoid prescribing habits in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a call for standardization.| | View in PubMed
- Stat3 activation in murine colitis induced by enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis.| | View in PubMed
- Infection and venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing colorectal surgery: what is the relationship?| | View in PubMed
- Surgical readmissions: a method to the madness.| | View in PubMed
- Does close temperature regulation affect surgical site infection rates?| | View in PubMed
- Surgical site infection monitoring: are 2 systems better than 1?| | View in PubMed
- Measuring briefing and checklist compliance in surgery: a tool for quality improvement.| | View in PubMed
- Building a business case for colorectal surgery quality improvement.| | View in PubMed
- Continuous intraoperative temperature measurement and surgical site infection risk: analysis of anesthesia information system data in 1008 colorectal procedures.| | View in PubMed
- Nodal status, number of lymph nodes examined, and lymph node ratio: what defines prognosis after resection of colon adenocarcinoma?| | View in PubMed
- National disparities in laparoscopic colorectal procedures for colon cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical treatment of acquired rectourethral fistulas: our experience with posterior transrectal transsphincteric approach. Author reply.| | View in PubMed
- Laparoscopic rectopexy for rectal prolapse to reduce surgical-site infections and length of stay.| | View in PubMed
- Hospital readmission by method of data collection.| | View in PubMed
- Bacterial oncogenesis in the colon.| | View in PubMed
- Patient satisfaction as a possible indicator of quality surgical care.| | View in PubMed
- Acquired rectourethral fistulas in adults: a systematic review of surgical repair techniques and outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- Standardized quality performance metrics: beware of the pitfalls.| | View in PubMed
- Is venous thromboembolism in colorectal surgery patients preventable or inevitable? One institution's experience.| | View in PubMed
- Avatar-based interactive ileostomy education in hospitalized patients.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections.| | View in PubMed
- Variation in surgical site infection monitoring and reporting by state.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes from IBD-associated and non-IBD-associated colorectal cancer: a Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Medicare study.| | View in PubMed
- Ureteral injury during laparoscopic colectomy: the need for more information: Comment on "Incidence of iatrogenic ureteral injury after laparoscopic colectomy".| | View in PubMed
- Colitides.| | View in PubMed
- Readmission rates and cost following colorectal surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Shift from pStat6 to pStat3 predominance is associated with inflammatory bowel disease-associated dysplasia.| | View in PubMed
- PPE, OPPE, and FPPE: complying with the new alphabet soup of credentialing.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical site infections and cost in obese patients undergoing colorectal surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Pay for obesity? Pay-for-performance metrics neglect increased complication rates and cost for obese patients.| | View in PubMed
- Variation in lymph node assessment after colon cancer resection: patient, surgeon, pathologist, or hospital?| | View in PubMed
- Bacteroides spp. and diarrhea.| | View in PubMed
- Image of the month--quiz case. Endometriosis.| | View in PubMed
- Predicting organ space surgical site infection with a nomogram.| | View in PubMed
- A human colonic commensal promotes colon tumorigenesis via activation of T helper type 17 T cell responses.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical site infections in a "high outlier" institution: are colorectal surgeons to blame?| | View in PubMed
- Contemporary surgical management for ileosigmoid fistulas in Crohn's disease.| | View in PubMed
- Implementation of quality measures to reduce surgical site infection in colorectal patients.| | View in PubMed
- MUC5AC, a gel-forming mucin accumulating in gallstone disease, is overproduced via an epidermal growth factor receptor pathway in the human gallbladder.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Calcitonin gene-related peptide partially mediates nociception in acute experimental pancreatitis.| | View in PubMed
- Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and substance P mediate nociception in acute pancreatitis.| | View in 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.| | View in PubMed
- Neutral endopeptidase determines the severity of pancreatitis-associated lung injury.| | View in PubMed
- Role of peripheral corticotropin-releasing factor and urocortin II in intestinal inflammation and motility in terminal ileum.| | View in PubMed
- Transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV-1) promotes neurogenic inflammation in the pancreas via activation of the neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R).| | View in PubMed