Emma McCone, Chris Snowden, Michael Swart, Tim W R Briggs, William K Gray
{"title":"Variation in surgery postponement rates in the NHS in England.","authors":"Emma McCone, Chris Snowden, Michael Swart, Tim W R Briggs, William K Gray","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Postponement of surgery at preoperative assessment in the days or weeks before the patient is admitted for surgery, as distinct from cancellation on the planned day of surgery, can be devastating for patients and an inefficient use of finite resources. However, postponements are often poorly recorded. The primary aim of this pilot study was to investigate elective surgical postponement rates during or after preoperative assessment across England, and the reasons for postponement for patients on an elective surgical pathway.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective analysis of clinical audit data from 16 National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England was undertaken. Data were collected during a two-week period in March 2024 on all postponements within a service. The primary outcome of interest was the postponement rate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Some 8000 case notes were reviewed. There were 583 (7.3%) postponements. Postponement rates across trusts varied from 31.9% to 1.0%. Significantly shorter time from referral to preoperative assessment was observed for day-case patients, urgent patients, patients without early screening and patients without a 'to come in' date in place. Of the 342 routine patients, 293 (85.7%) had postponements for medical rather than pathways or process reasons. Half of all routine patients waited over 94 days and a quarter of patients waited 198 days from being added to a patient tracking list to preoperative assessment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Minimizing postponements and improving preoperative assessment efficiency should be part of wider initiatives to streamline perioperative pathways.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142613349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Achievements and challenges after a century of parathyroid surgery.","authors":"Radu Mihai","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142643522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reuben C Suherman, Harpreet Singh, Darius K L Aw, Cheryl X Z Chong, Jia-Lin Ng, Sharmini Sivarajah, Winson J Tan, Fung-Joon Foo, Jasmine Ladlad, Nathanelle Khoo, Cheryl H M Tan, Frederick H Koh
{"title":"The role of yellow enhancement in laparoscopy.","authors":"Reuben C Suherman, Harpreet Singh, Darius K L Aw, Cheryl X Z Chong, Jia-Lin Ng, Sharmini Sivarajah, Winson J Tan, Fung-Joon Foo, Jasmine Ladlad, Nathanelle Khoo, Cheryl H M Tan, Frederick H Koh","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142666495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander A J Grüter, Willemijn A Jongsma, Nicola Leone, Hasti Barai, Boudewijn R Toorenvliet, Pieter J Tanis, Jurriaan B Tuynman
{"title":"Nationwide variations in the execution of minimally invasive right hemicolectomy and short-term outcomes: first phase of the RIGHT study.","authors":"Alexander A J Grüter, Willemijn A Jongsma, Nicola Leone, Hasti Barai, Boudewijn R Toorenvliet, Pieter J Tanis, Jurriaan B Tuynman","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znae291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znae291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":"111 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142666493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carl Johan Svensson, Kok Wai Giang, John Wallert, Christian Rück, Christina E Lundberg
{"title":"Psychiatric co-morbidity and substance abuse after gastric bypass surgery.","authors":"Carl Johan Svensson, Kok Wai Giang, John Wallert, Christian Rück, Christina E Lundberg","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znad179","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znad179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1618-1622"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10638527/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9915309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute abdominal pain and emergency laparotomy: bundles of care to improve patient outcomes.","authors":"Dunja Kokotovic, Thomas Korgaard Jensen","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znad224","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znad224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1594-1596"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9833842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspirin chemoprevention in colorectal cancer: network meta-analysis of low, moderate, and high doses.","authors":"Devansh Shah, Angelina Di Re, James W T Toh","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znad231","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znad231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer, with nearly 2 million cases worldwide and just under 1 million deaths in 2020. Several trials have demonstrated that aspirin has the potential to reduce the incidence and/or recurrence of colorectal cancer; however, the optimal aspirin dose is unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Relevant studies were identified by searching MEDLINE, Embase and the Cochrane Library from database inception to 2 February 2022. Data from RCTs in which the incidence of colorectal cancer in patients without active colorectal cancer assigned to aspirin versus control were included. Two investigators independently identified studies and abstracted data. Study quality was assessed using Cochrane Collaboration risk-of-bias 2 tool. The study was performed according to PRISMA guidelines. Aspirin dose was stratified into low (50-163 mg/day), mid (164-325 mg/day), and high (500-1200 mg/day).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirteen articles representing 11 RCTs (92 550 participants) were included, with studies assessing aspirin as primary prophylaxis in general or high-risk populations, and as secondary prophylaxis for metachronous colorectal cancer. There was a statistically significant reduction in colorectal cancer incidence in the high-dose aspirin group compared with the group that received no aspirin or placebo (OR 0.69, 95 per cent credible interval 0.50 to 0.96; surface under the cumulative ranking 0.82). There was no statistically significant difference between mid- and low-dose aspirin versus no aspirin/placebo.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this network meta-analysis of RCTs, high-dose aspirin was associated with a reduction in colorectal cancer incidence. However, this was based on a limited number of trials. This study did not show a statistically significant risk reduction in colorectal cancer incidence with mid- or low-dose aspirin.</p>","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1691-1702"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9885624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominic W Proctor, Richard Goodall, Kim Borsky, Justin D Salciccioli, Dominic C Marshall, Abdulla Mohamed, Kumaran Shanmugarajah, Joseph Shalhoub
{"title":"Trends in the mortality, incidence, and disability-adjusted life-years of intestinal obstruction and paralytic ileus: observational study of the Global Burden of Disease database.","authors":"Dominic W Proctor, Richard Goodall, Kim Borsky, Justin D Salciccioli, Dominic C Marshall, Abdulla Mohamed, Kumaran Shanmugarajah, Joseph Shalhoub","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znad232","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znad232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1650-1654"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9923456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael B Eppler, Conner Ganjavi, Ryan Davis, Aref S Sayegh, Jacob S Hershenhouse, Daniel Mokhtar, J Everett Knudsen, John Tran, Lokesh Bhardwaj, John J S Shin, Sij Hemal, Mitchell G Goldenberg, Gus Miranda, Rene Sotelo, Mihir Desai, Inderbir Gill, Giovanni E Cacciamani
{"title":"Criteria for enhancing reporting of perioperative transfusions in surgical and anaesthesiological studies.","authors":"Michael B Eppler, Conner Ganjavi, Ryan Davis, Aref S Sayegh, Jacob S Hershenhouse, Daniel Mokhtar, J Everett Knudsen, John Tran, Lokesh Bhardwaj, John J S Shin, Sij Hemal, Mitchell G Goldenberg, Gus Miranda, Rene Sotelo, Mihir Desai, Inderbir Gill, Giovanni E Cacciamani","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znad235","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znad235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1655-1658"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9930577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marianna Maspero, Olga Lavryk, Stefan D Holubar, Jeremy Lipman, Taha Qazi, Benjamin Cohen, Scott R Steele, Tracy Hull
{"title":"Long-term quality-of-life and functional outcomes after redo ileal pouch-anal anastomosis.","authors":"Marianna Maspero, Olga Lavryk, Stefan D Holubar, Jeremy Lipman, Taha Qazi, Benjamin Cohen, Scott R Steele, Tracy Hull","doi":"10.1093/bjs/znad244","DOIUrl":"10.1093/bjs/znad244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":136,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1663-1667"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9934030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}