Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Junqing Xie, Shuo Feng, Xintong Li, Ester Gea-Mallorqui, Albert Prats-Uribe, Dani Prieto-Alhambra
Summary: Comparison study shows that BNT162b2 vaccine has a decreased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection by 28% compared to ChAdOx1 vaccine, and two doses of BNT162b2 vaccine have 30% and 29% lower risks of infection and hospitalization respectively during the period when the Delta variant is dominant. The comparative protection against the infection persists for at least six months among fully vaccinated individuals, suggesting no differential waning between the two vaccines. These findings can inform evidence-based Covid-19 vaccination campaigns and booster strategies.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Thermodynamics
Christopher Jung, Dirk Schindler
Summary: The progress of onshore wind expansion varies globally and cannot be concluded solely based on installed capacity and capacity factor. This study quantifies and compares the effectiveness and efficiency of wind potential use for the top 40 countries in installed capacity. The results show that China, Brazil, and Italy use their wind potential more efficiently, while the USA and India consider wind resource efficiency adequately. Germany has the highest effectiveness despite low efficiency. This highlights the importance of evaluating wind energy expansion based on effectiveness and efficiency rather than just installed capacity and capacity factor.
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Surgery
Giannina Rokvic, Daniel L. Davenport, Charles F. Campbell, Evan M. Taylor, Andrew C. Bernard
Summary: The study found that emergent general surgery patients utilize significantly more resources than same-day elective patients, with various high-risk factors identified.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Christopher P. Childers, Susan L. Ettner, Ron D. Hays, Gerald Kominski, Melinda Maggard-Gibbons, Rodrigo F. Alban
Summary: Surgeons play a significant role in the variation of surgical supply costs and procedure time, but have less impact on postoperative length of stay. Intraoperative and postoperative utilization profiles can be created for individual surgeons, which may be crucial in reducing surgical costs.
Article
Surgery
David A. Magno-Padron, Kathleen A. Holoyda, Whitney Moss, Giovanna Pires, Gentry C. Carter, Jayant P. Agarwal, Alvin C. Kwok
Summary: This study aimed to determine the extent of resource utilization by elective outpatient surgery and found that elective outpatient surgeries consumed negligible amounts of hospital resources, not posing a threat to critically ill COVID-19 patients in high demand of resources.
LANGENBECKS ARCHIVES OF SURGERY
(2022)
Article
Surgery
Carina E. Riediger, Steffen Loeck, Laura Frohneberg, Raphael Hoffmann, Christoph Kahlert, Juergen Weitz
Summary: Due to demographic changes and higher life expectancy, the number of liver resections in patients aged 70 and above is increasing. This analysis compared the postoperative outcome between patients below and above 70 years old who underwent liver resections for malignancies. The results showed that patients aged 70 and above had higher rates of postoperative complications and mortality compared to younger patients. Factors such as major resections, longer operating time, blood transfusion requirement, and certain organ resections were associated with worse postoperative outcomes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Zaid M. Abdelsattar, Mohamed F. Elsisy, Hartzell Schaff, John Stulak, Kevin Greason, Alberto Pochettino, Arman Arghami, Philip Rowse, Gabor Bagameri, Vishal Khullar, Richard Daly, Sertac Cicek, Joseph Dearani, Juan Crestanello
Summary: The study compared the outcomes of mechanical valves, bioprostheses, and homografts in surgical reconstruction of the aortic root for complex endocarditis. It found that mechanical valves may have better short- and long-term outcomes, with lower operative mortality and poorer long-term survival with homografts in root replacement procedures.
ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Justin S. Hatchimonji, Catherine L. Mavroudis, Ari Friedman, Elinore J. Kaufman, Solomiya Syvyk, Christopher J. Wirtalla, Luke Keele, Patrick M. Reilly, Rachel R. Kelz
Summary: This study analyzed Medicare data and found that the treatment of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) diseases in older adults involves multiple resources. Different diseases have different treatment methods and resource utilization. It is suggested that changes in EGS models, acute care surgery training, and interhospital care coordination may improve the treatment outcomes for EGS patients.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Lara Jehi, Marcia Morita-Sherman, Thomas E. Love, Fabrice Bartolomei, William Bingaman, Kees Braun, Robyn M. Busch, John Duncan, Walter J. Hader, Guoming Luan, John D. Rolston, Stephan Schuele, Laura Tassi, Sumeet Vadera, Shehryar Sheikh, Imad Najm, Amir Arain, Justin Bingaman, Beate Diehl, Jane de Tisi, Matea Rados, Pieter Van Eijsden, Sandra Wahby, Xiongfei Wang, Samuel Wiebe
Summary: This study compared the outcomes of subdural electrode (SDE) implantations and stereotactic electroencephalography (SEEG) in drug-resistant focal epilepsy, finding that SDE is more likely to lead to resective surgery but with higher complications and lower seizure freedom rates compared to SEEG.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Review
Surgery
N. Aruparayil, W. Bolton, A. Mishra, L. Bains, J. Gnanaraj, R. King, T. Ensor, N. King, D. Jayne, B. Shinkins
Summary: The study found that gasless laparoscopy is effective for specific general surgery and gynecological procedures, making it suitable for use in low-resource settings.
SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Judith A. Blake, Richard Baldarelli, James A. Kadin, Joel E. Richardson, Cynthia L. Smith, Carol J. Bult
Summary: The Mouse Genome Database serves as a community model organism knowledge base for laboratory mice, providing authoritative biological reference data related to mouse genes, gene functions, phenotypes, and mouse models of human disease. It follows official guidelines for gene, allele, and mouse strain nomenclature and curates information from biomedical literature and datasets contributed by investigators. Major enhancements have been made to content and interfaces at MGD, including improvements in the Multi Genome Viewer, inclusion of more mouse strains, and integration of extensive data about mouse strain variants.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Adwaiy Manerikar, Melissa Querrey, Emily Cerier, Samuel Kim, David D. Odell, Lorenzo L. Pesce, Ankit Bharat
Summary: This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing surgical approaches for lung cancer resection, indicating that minimally invasive techniques may be superior to thoracotomy in near-term mortality, but there is no significant difference in long-term outcomes.
JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sun-Kyung Park, Taeyoon Lim, Hyeyeon Cho, Hyun-Kyu Yoon, Ho-Jin Lee, Ji-Hyun Lee, Seokha Yoo, Jin-Tae Kim, Won Ho Kim
Summary: This study comprehensively compared the pharmacological interventions to prevent postoperative delirium, finding that dexmedetomidine, haloperidol, and atypical antipsychotics were more effective than placebo in reducing delirium incidence. Dexmedetomidine and atypical antipsychotics had the highest probabilities to be the best interventions, but there were significant heterogeneity and small study effects that prevented firm conclusions.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Austin M. DeBoer, Katelyn M. Mellion, Susan M. Frankki, Kara J. Kallies, Brandon T. Grover, Joshua D. Pfeiffer, Shanu N. Kothari
Summary: Comparing transnasal endoscopy (TNE) to esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) in preoperative screening for bariatric surgery, TNE was found to be associated with less post-procedure care, shorter procedure time, and fewer charges compared to EGD. TNE could be considered as an initial screening tool for patients undergoing bariatric surgery, while EGD could be selectively used in patients with abnormal TNE findings.
SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
(2021)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Ayesha Butt, Cecily Allen, Adriana Purcell, Satoko Ito, George Goshua
Summary: In this review, the utilization and cost-effectiveness data of health resources in the care of patients with immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura were examined. The study focused on the therapeutic and diagnostic health technologies used for this rare disease, but the available data were limited to high-income countries. It is suggested that collecting health resource utilization data in low- and middle-income countries and measuring TTP-specific utility weights would enable a evaluation of the country-specific quality-adjusted life expectancy and cost-effectiveness of these health technologies.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)