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Balancing revenue generation with capacity generation: case distribution, financial impact and hospital capacity changes from cancelling or resuming elective surgeries in the US during COVID-19 by Tonna, Joseph E, Hanson, Heidi A, Cohan, Jessica N, McCrum, Marta L, Horns, Joshua J, Brooke, Benjamin S, Das, Rupam, Kelly, Brenna C, Campbell, Alexander John, Hotaling, James

“…To increase bed capacity and resources, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, although the financial impact of this decision is unknown. We sought to…”
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Taking action to achieve health equity and eliminate healthcare disparities within acute care surgery by McCrum, Marta L, Zakrison, Tanya L, Knowlton, Lisa Marie, Bruns, Brandon, Kao, Lillian S, Joseph, Kathie-Ann, Berry, Cherisse

“…Addressing disparities is crucial for enhancing population health, ensuring health security, and fostering resilient health systems. Disparities in acute care…”
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Naloxone co-prescriptions for surgery patients prescribed opioids: A retrospective cohort study by Huang, Lyen C, Nibley, Henry, Cheng, Melissa, Bleicher, Josh, Ko, Hyunkyu, Johnson, Jordan E, McCrum, Marta L

“…Surgeon-prescribed opioids contribute to 11% of prescription drug overdoses in the United States (US). With prescription opioids involved in 24% of all…”
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Quality care is equitable care: a call to action to link quality to achieving health equity within acute care surgery by Knowlton, Lisa M, Zakrison, Tanya, Kao, Lillian S, McCrum, Marta L, Agarwal, Suresh, Bruns, Brandon, Joseph, Kathie-Ann, Berry, Cherisse

“…Health equity is defined as the sixth domain of healthcare quality. Understanding health disparities in acute care surgery (defined as trauma surgery,…”
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Invited commentary on: “Factors associated with potentially avoidable interhospital transfers in emergency general surgery—A call for quality improvement efforts” by McCrum, Marta L.

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Mortality for publicly reported conditions and overall hospital mortality rates by McCrum, Marta L, Joynt, Karen E, Orav, E John, Gawande, Atul A, Jha, Ashish K

“…Federal efforts about public reporting and quality improvement programs for hospitals have focused primarily on a small number of medical conditions. Whether…”
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Developing a Surgical Quality Improvement Program for Resource-Limited Settings by McCrum, Marta L, Valmont, Taurus, Price, Raymond R

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Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with greater mortality after high-risk emergency general surgery by Cain, Brian T., Horns, Joshua J., Huang, Lyen C., McCrum, Marta L.

“…Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse outcomes after elective surgery, but the effect on emergency general surgery (EGS) remains unclear. We…”
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Readmissions after nonoperative trauma: Increased mortality and costs with delayed intervention by McCrum, Marta L., Zhang, Chong, Presson, Angela P., Nirula, Raminder

“…We sought to examine patterns of readmission after nonoperative trauma, including rates of delayed operative intervention and mortality. The Nationwide…”
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Racial and ethnic disparities in interhospital transfer for complex emergency general surgical disease across the United States by Iantorno, Stephanie E., Bucher, Brian T., Horns, Joshua J., McCrum, Marta L.

“…Differential access to specialty surgical care can drive health care disparities, and interhospital transfer (IHT) is one mechanism through which access…”
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Greater spatial access to care is associated with lower mortality for emergency general surgery by McCrum, Marta L., Allen, Chelsea M., Han, Jiuyin, Iantorno, Stephanie E., Presson, Angela P., Wan, Neng

“…Emergency general surgery (EGS) diseases are time-sensitive conditions that require urgent surgical evaluation, yet the effect of geographic access to care on…”
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Use of the spatial access ratio to measure geospatial access to emergency general surgery services in California by McCrum, Marta L., Wan, Neng, Lizotte, Steven L., Han, Jiuying, Varghese, Thomas, Nirula, Raminder

“…Emergency general surgery (EGS) encompasses a spectrum of time-sensitive and resource-intensive conditions, which require adequate and timely access to…”
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Nephrectomy is Associated with Increased Mortality after Renal Trauma: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank from 2007-2016 by Anderson, Ross E, Keihani, Sorena, Das, Rupam, Hanson, Heidi A, McCrum, Marta L, Hotaling, James M, Myers, Jeremy B

“…The majority of high grade renal trauma can be managed conservatively. However, nephrectomy is still common for acute management. We hypothesized that when…”
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Drivers of Moral Distress in Surgical Intensive Care Providers: A Mixed Methods Study by Bleicher, Josh, Place, Aubrey, Schoenhals, Sarah, Luppens, Carolyn L., Grudziak, Joanna, Lambert, Laura A., McCrum, Marta L.

“…•Surgical Intensive Care Unit providers have high levels of moral distress.•The main driver of moral distress is participating in the delivery of futile…”
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Disparities in Ultrasound Use for Diagnosing Pediatric Appendicitis Across United States Emergency Departments by Scaife, Jack H, Bryce, Jacoby R, Iantorno, Stephanie E, Yang, Meng, McCrum, Marta L, Bucher, Brian T

“…An ultrasound (US)-first approach for evaluating appendicitis is recommended by the American College of Radiology. We sought to assess the access to and…”
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Contributors to Increased Mortality Associated With Care Fragmentation After Emergency General Surgery by McCrum, Marta L, Cannon, Austin R, Allen, Chelsea M, Presson, Angela P, Huang, Lyen C, Brooke, Benjamin S

“…Care fragmentation at time of readmission after emergency general surgery (EGS) is associated with high mortality; however, the factors underlying this finding…”
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Application of Community Detection Methods to Identify Emergency General Surgery-Specific Regional Networks by Han, Jiuying, Wan, Neng, Horns, Joshua J, McCrum, Marta L

“…There is growing interest in developing coordinated regional systems for nontraumatic surgical emergencies; however, our understanding of existing emergency…”
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Secondary Undertriage of Pediatric Trauma Patients Across the United States Emergency Departments by Scaife, Jack H., Bryce, Jacoby R., Iantorno, Stephanie E., Yang, Meng, McCrum, Marta L., Bucher, Brian T.

“…The American College of Surgeons has developed evidence-based guidelines to triage the care of severely injured children to Level 1 and 2 trauma centers…”
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Emergency Department Utilization for Pediatric Gastrostomy Tubes Across the United States by Iantorno, Stephanie E., Scaife, Jack H., Bryce, Jacoby R., Yang, Meng, McCrum, Marta L., Bucher, Brian T.

“…Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrostomy tube complications in children represent a substantial health-care burden, and many ED visits are potentially…”
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Impact of premorbid oral anticoagulant use on survival in patients with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage by Botros, David, Gautam, Diwas, Hamrick, Forrest A., Nguyen, Sarah, Cortez, Janet, Young, Jason B., Lombardo, Sarah, McCrum, Marta L., Menacho, Sarah T., Grandhi, Ramesh

“…OBJECTIVE Although oral anticoagulant use has been implicated in worse outcomes for patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), prior studies have mostly…”
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