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This Viewpoint examines the challenges faced by students from diverse institutional backgrounds in pursuing academic surgery and recommends measures to promote institutional diversity by adopting a more holistic approach in the selection process for general surgery residency.

This cohort study investigates the feasibility of using health information technology to collect patient-reported outcome measures within a national surgical quality improvement program at scale.

This narrative review discusses efforts to reduce the incidence of surgical site infections and suggests a sustainable approach to infection prevention via principles of antimicrobial stewardship and microbiome sciences.

This cohort study examines the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services star ratings in hospitals for mortality, serious complication, and readmission outcomes.

This cohort study examines the association of extended regular follow-up after 5 years postgastrectomy for gastric cancer with overall and postrecurrence survival rates among patients in Korea.

This Viewpoint describes potential benefits and hurdles to implementing a more personalized approach to obesity treatment through a comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation that considers surgical, medical, and combined therapies.

This randomized clinical trial compared 2 mesh placement techniques for open retromuscular parastomal hernia repair in 150 patients with a permanent stoma to determine which was better at preventing parastomal hernia recurrence.

This cohort study uses Medicare claims data to analyze the operative recurrence rate for ventral hernia for up to 10 years after patients underwent robotic-assisted, laparoscopic, and open ventral hernia repairs from January 2010 to December 2020.

This post hoc analysis of the phase 3 SCOT randomized clinical trial investigates the association between the timing of adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for colorectal cancer and disease-free survival.

This randomized clinical trial evaluates the use of an early exercise intervention in shoulder range of motion following surgery in patients with breast cancer.

This cross-sectional study analyzes the association of race-specific incarceration with race-specific firearm violence rates in Chicago, Illinois, and whether social or familial instability mediate these associations.

This prognostic study investigates the ability of a large language model to perform risk stratification and predict postoperative outcomes using a description of the procedure and the patient’s preoperative clinical notes.

This surgical innovation explains how applying deep neural networks could ensure the continued use of video-based assessment.