Johns Hopkins
Surgery Center for Outcomes Research 

April 2015

 

Unmet surgical needs in children: a household survey in Nepal.

Nagarajan N, Gupta S, Shresthra S, Varadaraj V, Devkota S, Ranjit A, Kushner AL, Nwomeh BC.

Pediatr Surg Int. 2015 Apr;31(4):389-95.

Presence of haptoglobin-2 allele is associated with worse functional outcomes after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.

Murthy SB, Levy AP, Duckworth J, Schneider EB, Shalom H, Hanley DF, Tamargo RJ, Nyquist PA.

World Neurosurg. 2015 Apr;83(4):583-7. 

Smoking is not associated with severe dysplasia or invasive carcinoma in resected intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms.

Rezaee N, Khalifian S, Cameron JL, Pawlik TM, Hruban RH, Fishman EK, Makary MA, Lennon AM, Wolfgang CL, Weiss MJ.

J Gastrointest Surg. 2015 Apr;19(4):656-65. 

 

The sleepy surgeon: does night-time surgery for trauma affect mortality outcomes?

Zafar SN, Libuit L, Hashmi ZG, Hughes K, Greene WR, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haider AH, Fullum TM, Tran DD.

Am J Surg. 2015 Apr;209(4):633-9. 

Outcomes of trauma care at centers treating a higher proportion of older patients: the case for geriatric trauma centers.

Zafar SN, Obirieze A, Schneider EB, Hashmi ZG, Scott VK, Greene WR, Efron DT, MacKenzie EJ, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haider AH.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Apr;78(4):852-9.

Racial/ethnic disparities in emergency general surgery: explained by hospital-level characteristics?

Hall EC, Hashmi ZG, Zafar SN, Zogg CK, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haider AH.

Am J Surg. 2015 Apr;209(4):604-9.