The American Surgical Association, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious surgical organization, elected as new fellows Ginny Bumgardner, MD, PhD, professor of Transplant Surgery, and Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD, MBA, executive director of University Hospital and professor of Thoracic Surgery. The membership in this organization includes this country’s top surgeons.
Month: May 2018
Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Quality Summit
Critical Care Quality Summit
Submit your abstract (deadline 6/29/18) for the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) new Critical Care Quality Summit, which will take place September 17 and 18, 2018, at the Emory Conference Center Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The Critical Care Quality Summit is a unique conference focused on peer-to-peer learning led by expert faculty exploring hot topics in critical care patient safety and quality.
The top abstracts will be featured in poster presentations at the summit. Contact authors will be notified of abstract acceptance July 2018.
The entire intensive care unit (ICU) team is encouraged to attend, as well as individuals. Those who attend can plan to return to their ICU equipped with new knowledge and innovative implementation strategies.
If you have any questions, please contact SCCM Customer Service at +1 847 827-6869.
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Seattle Next Month
This is hands down the best HSR conference. The content is of the highest caliber with national experts on improving healthcare delivery. See their own description below.
“AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting (ARM), the premier forum for health services research (HSR), convenes the foremost experts at the intersection of health, health care, and policy to share important findings and showcase the latest research on how the health system works, what it costs, and how to improve it.
The largest meeting of its kind, the ARM is packed with new research, cutting edge methods, and robust discussions of HSR’s impact on health policy and practice. The meeting features compelling sessions, panels on critical and emerging issues in health services research, and presentations of high quality peer-reviewed research.”
For more information or to register, click here.
Propensity Score Journal Club
On May 16, 2018 we will discuss the utility and application of propensity scores.
We will review 3 papers using propensity score to better understand surgical problems (cholecystectomy for biliary disease, “July effect” on emergency general surgery outcomes, and role of Do-Not-Resuscitate orders on mortality of elderly patients undergoing emergency general surgery).
A helpful methods paper by Austin can be found here. In addition, for those who want more in depth review on how to utilize propensity scores, we have included the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) three part series on the methodology (Part I, Part II, Part III).
Those wishing to leave comments before or after the in person journal club are welcome to do so on this page.