JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.5191
Jordan M Cloyd, Angela Sarna, Matthew J Arango, Susan E Bates, Manoop S Bhutani, Mark Bloomston, Vincent Chung, Efrat Dotan, Cristina R Ferrone, Patricia F Gambino, Ajit H Goenka, Karyn A Goodman, William A Hall, Jin He, Melissa E Hogg, Shiva Jayaraman, Avinash Kambadakone, Matthew H G Katz, Alok A Khorana, Andrew H Ko, Eugene J Koay, David A Kooby, Somashekar G Krishna, Liliana K Larsson, Richard T Lee, Anirban Maitra, Nader N Massarweh, Sameh Mikhail, Mahvish Muzaffar, Eileen M O'Reilly, Manisha Palta, Maria Q B Petzel, Philip A Philip, Marsha Reyngold, Daniel Santa Mina, Davendra P S Sohal, Tilak K Sundaresan, Susan Tsai, Kea L Turner, Timothy J Vreeland, Steve Walston, M Kay Washington, Terence M Williams, Jennifer Y Wo, Rebecca A Snyder
{"title":"Best Practices for Delivering Neoadjuvant Therapy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.","authors":"Jordan M Cloyd, Angela Sarna, Matthew J Arango, Susan E Bates, Manoop S Bhutani, Mark Bloomston, Vincent Chung, Efrat Dotan, Cristina R Ferrone, Patricia F Gambino, Ajit H Goenka, Karyn A Goodman, William A Hall, Jin He, Melissa E Hogg, Shiva Jayaraman, Avinash Kambadakone, Matthew H G Katz, Alok A Khorana, Andrew H Ko, Eugene J Koay, David A Kooby, Somashekar G Krishna, Liliana K Larsson, Richard T Lee, Anirban Maitra, Nader N Massarweh, Sameh Mikhail, Mahvish Muzaffar, Eileen M O'Reilly, Manisha Palta, Maria Q B Petzel, Philip A Philip, Marsha Reyngold, Daniel Santa Mina, Davendra P S Sohal, Tilak K Sundaresan, Susan Tsai, Kea L Turner, Timothy J Vreeland, Steve Walston, M Kay Washington, Terence M Williams, Jennifer Y Wo, Rebecca A Snyder","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.5191","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.5191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Neoadjuvant therapy (NT) is an increasingly used treatment strategy for patients with localized pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Little research has been conducted on cancer care delivery during NT, and the standards for optimal delivery of NT have not been defined.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To develop consensus best practices for delivering NT to patients with localized PDAC.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This study used a modified Delphi approach consisting of 2 rounds of voting, and a series of virtual conferences (from October to December 2023) to reach expert consensus on candidate best practice statements generated from a systematic review of the literature and expert opinion. An interdisciplinary panel was formed including 47 North American experts from surgical, medical, and radiation oncology, radiology, pathology, gastroenterology, integrative oncology, anesthesia, pharmacy, nursing, cancer care delivery research, and nutrition as well as patient and caregiver stakeholders.</p><p><strong>Main outcome and measures: </strong>Statements that reached 75% agreement or greater were included in final consensus statements.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 47 participating panel members, 27 (57.64%) were male, and the mean (SD) age was 47.6 (8.2) years. Physicians reported completing training a mean (SD) 14.6 (8.6) years prior and seeing a mean (SD) 110.6 (38.4) patients with PDAC annually; 35 (77.7%) were in academic practice. Final consensus was reached on 82 best practices for delivering NT. Of these, 38 statements focused on pre-NT practices, including diagnosis and staging (n = 15), evaluation and optimization (n = 20), and decision-making (n = 3); 29 statements defined best practices during NT, including initiation (n = 3), delivery of therapy (n = 8), restaging practices (n = 12), and management of complications during NT (n = 6); and 15 best practices were identified to guide treatment post-NT, focusing on surgery (n = 7), pathology (n = 4), and follow-up (n = 3).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Using a modified Delphi consensus technique, best practice guidelines were developed focusing on the optimal standards for delivering NT to patients with localized PDAC. Given the prognostic importance of completing multimodality therapy, efforts to standardize and optimize the delivery of NT represent an immediate opportunity to decrease care variation and improve outcomes for patients with PDAC. Future research should focus on validating and implementing best practice standards into clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618571/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142768958","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.5412
Caro L Bruna, Anouk M L H Emmen, Kongyuan Wei, Robert P Sutcliffe, Baiyong Shen, Guiseppe K Fusai, Yi-Ming Shyr, Igor Khatkov, Steve White, Leia R Jones, Alberto Manzoni, Mustafa Kerem, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Clarissa Ferrari, Olivier Saint-Marc, I Quintus Molenaar, Claudio Bnà, Safi Dokmak, Ugo Boggi, Rong Liu, Jin-Young Jang, Marc G Besselink, Mohammad Abu Hilal
{"title":"Effects of Pancreatic Fistula After Minimally Invasive and Open Pancreatoduodenectomy.","authors":"Caro L Bruna, Anouk M L H Emmen, Kongyuan Wei, Robert P Sutcliffe, Baiyong Shen, Guiseppe K Fusai, Yi-Ming Shyr, Igor Khatkov, Steve White, Leia R Jones, Alberto Manzoni, Mustafa Kerem, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Clarissa Ferrari, Olivier Saint-Marc, I Quintus Molenaar, Claudio Bnà, Safi Dokmak, Ugo Boggi, Rong Liu, Jin-Young Jang, Marc G Besselink, Mohammad Abu Hilal","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.5412","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.5412","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Postoperative pancreatic fistulas (POPF) are the biggest contributor to surgical morbidity and mortality after pancreatoduodenectomy. The impact of POPF could be influenced by the surgical approach.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the clinical impact of POPF in patients undergoing minimally invasive pancreatoduodenectomy (MIPD) and open pancreatoduodenectomy (OPD).</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cohort study was conducted from 2007 to 2020 in 36 referral centers in Europe, South America, and Asia. Participants were patients with POPF (grade B/C as defined by the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery [ISGPS]) after MIPD and OPD (MIPD-POPF, OPD-POPF). Propensity score matching was performed in a 1:1 ratio based on the variables age (continuous), sex, body mass index (continuous), American Society of Anesthesiologists score (dichotomous), vascular involvement, neoadjuvant therapy, tumor size, malignancy, and POPF grade C. Data analysis was performed from July to October 2023.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>MIPD and OPD.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was the presence of a second clinically relevant (ISGPS grade B/C) complication (postpancreatic hemorrhage [PPH], delayed gastric emptying [DGE], bile leak, and chyle leak) besides POPF.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 1130 patients with POPF were included (558 MIPD and 572 OPD), of whom 336 patients after MIPD were matched to 336 patients after OPD. The median (IQR) age was 65 (58-73) years; there were 703 males (62.2%) and 427 females (37.8%). Among patients who had MIPD-POPF, 129 patients (55%) experienced a second complication compared with 95 patients (36%) with OPD-POPF (P < .001). The rate of PPH was higher with MIPD-POPF (71 patients [21%] vs 22 patients [8.0%]; P < .001), without significant differences for DGE (65 patients [19%] vs 45 patients [16%]; P = .40), bile leak (43 patients [13%] vs 52 patients [19%]; P = .06), and chyle leak (1 patient [0.5%] vs 5 patients [1.9%]; P = .39). MIPD-POPF was associated with a longer hospital stay (median [IQR], 27 [18-38] days vs 22 [15-30] days; P < .001) and more reoperations (67 patients [21%] vs 21 patients [7%]; P < .001) but comparable in-hospital/30-day mortality (25 patients [7%] vs 7 patients [5%]; P = .31) with OPD-POPF, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study found that for patients after MIPD, the presence of POPF is more frequently associated with other clinically relevant complications compared with OPD. This underscores the importance of perioperative mitigation strategies for POPF and the resulting PPH in high-risk patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142768963","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4748
Aymen H Sadaka, William J O'Brien, Kamal M F Itani
{"title":"Surgical Decision-Making and Umbilical Hernia Repair Outcomes.","authors":"Aymen H Sadaka, William J O'Brien, Kamal M F Itani","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4748","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618625/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142768999","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4956
Anagha Cupples, Ingrid Duva, Hope Birdsong, Nader N Massarweh
{"title":"Surgical Turnover Time Using Lean Six Sigma.","authors":"Anagha Cupples, Ingrid Duva, Hope Birdsong, Nader N Massarweh","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4956","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4956","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11618629/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142769002","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4297
Thomas H Shin, Stanley W Ashley, Thomas C Tsai
{"title":"Defining the Role of Machine Learning in Optimizing Surgical Outcomes.","authors":"Thomas H Shin, Stanley W Ashley, Thomas C Tsai","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4297","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1432"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142390609","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4279
Sander J M van Hootegem, Matteo Pittacolo, Sjoerd M Lagarde
{"title":"Extended Follow-Up in Patients With Gastric Cancer-Applicable to Western Patients?","authors":"Sander J M van Hootegem, Matteo Pittacolo, Sjoerd M Lagarde","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4279","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4279","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1442"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142390610","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4285
Armaan K Malhotra, Rachael H Jaffe, Husain Shakil, Francois Mathieu, Avery B Nathens, Abhaya V Kulkarni, Calvin Diep, Eva Y Yuan, Karim S Ladha, Peter C Coyte, Jefferson R Wilson, Walter P Wodchis, Christopher D Witiw
{"title":"Unemployment and Personal Income Loss After Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Armaan K Malhotra, Rachael H Jaffe, Husain Shakil, Francois Mathieu, Avery B Nathens, Abhaya V Kulkarni, Calvin Diep, Eva Y Yuan, Karim S Ladha, Peter C Coyte, Jefferson R Wilson, Walter P Wodchis, Christopher D Witiw","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4285","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.4285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Employment and personal income loss after traumatic brain injury is a major source of postinjury stress and a barrier to societal reintegration. The magnitude of labor market ramifications following traumatic brain injury remains largely unknown.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To quantify the 3-year postinjury labor market consequences following traumatic brain injury in Canada. To also estimate the incurred national labor market cost over the study period.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This retrospective quasi-experimental, pan-Canadian observational cohort study used linked administrative health and federal taxation data obtained between 2007 and 2017. Mixed-effects difference-in-difference regressions were constructed to estimate the annualized magnitude of the personal income and employment loss during each of the 3 years following injury, respectively, relative to preinjury baseline. Participants included tax-filing adult (19 to 61 years old) traumatic brain injury survivors.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Traumatic brain injury.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Coprimary outcomes were personal income loss and the proportion of newly unemployed individuals per annum. Secondary objectives were to quantify income and employment loss within mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury subgroups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 18 050 patients with traumatic brain injury between 2007 and 2017 were identified (mean age, 38.0 [SD, 12.4] years; 13 360 male [74.0%]), each of whom was followed up with for 3 consecutive fiscal years. Mean income was CAD $42 600 (US $31 083) in the fiscal year prior to injury and 82% were employed at time of injury. The adjusted mean loss of personal income was CAD $7635 (US $5650) in the first year after injury (Y+1) and CAD $5000 (US $3700) in the third year after injury (Y+3) relative to uninjured controls. In each of the 3 postinjury years, 7.8% individuals were newly unemployed compared with the preinjury baseline. The adjusted average personal income loss for mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury subgroups were CAD $3354 (US $2482), CAD $6750 (US $4995), and CAD $17 375 (US $12 859), respectively, at Y+3; the proportion of unemployed individuals increased by 5.8%, 9.2%, and 20% across the same groups at Y+3 after injury relative to preinjury baseline. The estimated total reduction in personal income aggregated over the 3 postinjury years for the affected participants was CAD $588 million (US $435 million).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This work represents national cohort data quantifying the labor market implications of traumatic brain injury. These results may be used to inform economic evaluations and social service resource allocation.</p>","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1415-1422"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11581738/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142390614","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}
JAMA surgeryPub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3519
Michael W Yeh
{"title":"Primary Hyperparathyroidism-\"Overtones\" May Be Overblown.","authors":"Michael W Yeh","doi":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3519","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14690,"journal":{"name":"JAMA surgery","volume":" ","pages":"1382"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142125736","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}