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Poulose BK, Avila-Tang E, Schwartzman H, Bisgaard T, Jørgensen LN, Gibeily G, Schick A, Marinac-Dabic D, Rosen MJ, Pappas G. Determining the value of the abdominal core health quality collaborative to support regulatory decisions. Hernia 2024:10.1007/s10029-024-02990-5. [PMID: 38683481 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-024-02990-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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PURPOSE The study objective is to document value created by real-world evidence from the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC) for regulatory decisions. The ACHQC is a national effort that generates data on hernia repair techniques and devices. METHODS Two retrospective cohort evaluations compared cost and time of ACHQC analyses to traditional postmarket studies. The first analysis was based on 25 reports submitted to the European Medicines Agency of 20 mesh products for post-market surveillance. A second analysis supported label expansion submitted to the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health for a robotic-assisted surgery device to include ventral hernia repair. Estimated costs of counterfactual studies, defined as studies that might have been done if the registry had not been available, were derived from a model described in the literature. Return on investment, percentage of cost savings, and time savings were calculated. RESULTS 45,010 patients contributed to the two analyses. The cost and time differences between individual 25 ACHQC analyses (41,112 patients) and traditional studies ranged from $1.3 to $2.2 million and from 3 to 4.8 years, both favoring use of the ACHQC. In the second label expansion analysis (3,898 patients), the estimated return on investment ranged from 11 to 461% with time savings of 5.1 years favoring use of the ACHQC. CONCLUSIONS Compared to traditional postmarket studies, use of ACHQC data can result in cost and time savings when used for appropriate regulatory decisions in light of key assumptions.
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- B K Poulose
- Center for Abdominal Core Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
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- United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative Foundation, Centennial, CO, USA
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- Surgical Department, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Digestive Disease Center, Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- Center for Abdominal Core Health, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Alzatari R, Huang LC, Poulose BK. The impact of opioid versus non-opioid analgesics on postoperative pain level, quality of life, and outcomes in ventral hernia repair. Hernia 2024:10.1007/s10029-024-02968-3. [PMID: 38296871 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-024-02968-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024]
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PURPOSE Managing postoperative pain remains a significant challenge in hernia operations. With ventral hernia repair (VHR) being one of the most commonly performed procedures, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of non-opioid analgesia to opioid-based regimens for postoperative pain management. METHODS The Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative was queried for elective VHR patients between 2019-2022. Subjects prescribed opioid or non-opioid analgesics at discharge were matched using a propensity score. Postoperative Hernia-Related Quality of Life Survey (HerQLes) summary scores, Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) 3a questionnaire, and clinical outcomes were compared between the two groups. RESULTS 1,051 patients who underwent VHR met the study criteria. The 2:1 matched demographics were opioids (n = 188) and non-opioids (n = 94) (median age 63, 48% females, 91% white, and 6.5 cm hernia length). Long-term (1-year post-operation) patients' pain levels were similar between opioids vs non-opioids (median (IQR): 31(31-40) vs. 31(31-40), p = 0.46), and HerQLes summary scores were similar (92(78-100) vs. 90(59-95), p = 0.052). Clinical short-term (30-days post-operation) outcomes between opioid vs non-opioid patients had similar length-of-stay (1(0-5) vs 2(0-6), P = 0.089), readmissions (3% vs. 1%, P = 0.28), recurrences (0% vs. 0%, P = 1), reoperations (1% vs. 0%, P = 0.55), surgical site infections (3% vs. 7%, P = 0.11), surgical site occurrences (5% vs. 6%, P = 0.57), and surgical site occurrences requiring procedural intervention (3% vs. 6%, P = 0.13). Finally, long-term recurrence rates were similar (12% vs. 12%, P = 1). CONCLUSION Non-opioid postoperative regimens for analgesia are non-inferior to opioids in VHR patients with similar outcomes. Aggressive efforts should be undertaken to reduce opioid use in this population.
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- Ramez Alzatari
- Department of Surgery, Center for Abdominal Core Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
- Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine-Dublin Campus, Dublin, OH, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Center for Abdominal Core Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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Alzatari R, Hassanein R, Doble J, Huang LC, Poulose BK. Determining the impact of individual ventral hernia repair complications on patient-reported quality of life. Hernia 2023; 27:687-694. [PMID: 37140759 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-023-02800-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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PURPOSE Ventral hernia repair (VHR) postoperative complications vary in presentation, management, and severity. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of individual postoperative complications on long-term quality of life (QoL) after VHR. METHODS Data from the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative were analyzed retrospectively. Propensity score matching compared 1-year postoperative Hernia-Related Quality of Life Survey (HerQLes) summary scores between non-wound events (NWE), surgical site infection (SSI), and surgical site occurrence requiring procedural intervention (SSOPI) versus No-Complications. RESULTS 2796 patients who underwent VHR between 2013 and 2022 met the study criteria. Patients with SSI and SSOPI had lower QoL vs No-Complications (median (Interquartile range): 71 (40-92) vs 83 (52-94), P = 0.02; 68 (40-90) vs 78 (55-95), P = 0.008). NWE vs no-complications HerQLes score differences were similar (83 (53-92) vs 83 (60-93), P = 0.19). CONCLUSION Wound events seem to have larger impact on patients' long-term QoL compared to NWE. Continued and aggressive efforts including preoperative optimization, technical points, and appropriate use of minimally invasive techniques can continue to reduce impactful wound events.
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- R Alzatari
- Center for Abdominal Core Health, Department of Surgery, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 410 W 10th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
- Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dublin Campus, Dublin, OH, USA.
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- Center for Abdominal Core Health, Department of Surgery, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 410 W 10th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Department of General Surgery, Avita Health System, Galion, OH, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Center for Abdominal Core Health, Department of Surgery, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 410 W 10th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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Perez AJ, Petro CC, Higgins RM, Huang LC, Phillips S, Warren J, Dews T, Reinhorn M. Predictors of low and high opioid tablet consumption after inguinal hernia repair: an ACHQC opioid reduction task force analysis. Hernia 2022; 26:1625-1633. [PMID: 36036822 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-022-02661-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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PURPOSE Prescribing and consumption of opioids remain highly variable. Using a national hernia registry, we aimed to identify patient and surgery specific factors associated with low and high opioid tablet consumption after inguinal hernia repair. METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study evaluating patients undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair with 30-day follow-up and patient-reported opioid consumption from March 2019 to March 2021 using the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative. Clinically significant patient demographics, comorbidities, operative details, quality-of-life measurements, and surgeon prescribing data were entered into a multivariable logistic regression model to identify statistically significant predictors of patients who took no opioid tablets or >10 tablets. RESULTS A total of 1937 patients were analyzed. Operations included 59% laparoscopic or robotic, 35% open mesh, and 6% open non-mesh repairs. Of these patients, 50% reported taking zero, 42% took 1-10, and 8% took ≥10 opioid tablets at 30-day follow-up. Patients who were older (OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.34-1.79, p-value <0.001), ASA ≤ 2 (OR 1.56, 95% CI 1.2-2.01, p-value <0.001), had no preoperative opioid use at baseline (OR 2.29, 95% CI 1.31-4.03, p-value = 0.004), had local anesthetic with general anesthesia (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.0.5-1.85, p-value = 0.022), or prescribed <7 opioid tablets (OR 2.27, 95% CI 1.96-2.62, p-value <0.001) were more likely to take no opioid tablets. CONCLUSION Older, healthier, opioid naïve patients with local anesthetic administered during elective inguinal hernia repair are most likely to not require opioids. Surgeon prescribing-arguably the most modifiable factor-independently correlates with both low and high opioid consumption.
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- A J Perez
- Division of General, Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4008 Burnett Womack, Campus Box 7228, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7228, USA.
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- Center for Abdominal Core Health, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of General, Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4008 Burnett Womack, Campus Box 7228, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7228, USA.,Division of Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Division of General, Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4008 Burnett Womack, Campus Box 7228, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7228, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of General, Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4008 Burnett Womack, Campus Box 7228, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7228, USA.,Department of Surgery, Division of Minimal Access, and Bariatric Surgery, Prisma Health Upstate, Greenville, SC, USA
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- Division of General, Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4008 Burnett Womack, Campus Box 7228, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7228, USA.,Pain Management Department, Cleveland Clinic Euclid Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of General, Acute Care and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4008 Burnett Womack, Campus Box 7228, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7228, USA.,Mass General Brigham - Newton Wellesley Hospital, Boston Hernia and Pilonidal Center, Newton, MA, USA
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Reinhorn M, Dews T, Warren JA. Utilization of a National Registry to influence opioid prescribing behavior after hernia repair. Hernia 2022; 26:847-853. [PMID: 34480659 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-021-02495-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Despite progress toward curtailing opioid prescribing, physicians are often slow to adopt new prescribing practices. Using the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC), we aimed to demonstrate the ability of a national, disease-specific, personalized registry to impact opioid prescribing. METHODS Using a collaborative and iterative process, a module was developed to capture surgeon opioid prescribing, patient-reported consumption, and risk factors for opioid use. Study reported according to the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) 2.0 guidelines. RESULTS Six months after implementation of the ACHQC opioid module, we assessed participation, prescribing and patient consumption patterns. For ventral hernia repair (VHR; n = 398), 23 surgeons reported prescribing > 20 pills (43%), 11-20 (40%), and < 10 (18%). In contrast, patients (n = 217) reported taking < 10 pills in 65% and only 20% reported taking > 15. For inguinal hernia repair (IHR; n = 443) 37 surgeons reported prescribing > 20 tablets (22%), 11-20 (32%), and < 10 (44%). Patients (n = 277) reported taking < 10 pills in 81% of cases, including 50% reporting zero, and only 13% taking > 15. We identified barriers to practice change and developed a strategy for education, provision of individualized data, and encouraging participation. Surgeon participation has since increased significantly (n = 65 for VHR; n = 53 for IHR), and analysis of the impact of this process is ongoing. CONCLUSION Quality improvement requires physician engagement, which can be facilitated by meaningful and actionable data. The specificity of the ACHQC and the ability to provide surgeons with individualized data is a model method to incite change in physician behavior and improve patient outcomes.
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- M Reinhorn
- Boston Hernia & Pilonidal Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 201 Walnut St, Ste 100, Wellesley, MD, 02481, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Pain Management, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Euclid Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Prisma Health Upstate, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, 701 Grove Rd, ST 3, Greenville, SC, 29605, USA.
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Lamm R, Olson MA, Palazzo F. Are perioperative outcomes in cancer-related ventral incisional hernia repair worse than in the general population? An Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative ( ACHQC) database study. Hernia 2022; 26:1169-1177. [PMID: 35486185 DOI: 10.1007/s10029-022-02618-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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PURPOSE Patients with a history of cancer-related abdominal surgery undergoing incisional hernia repair (IHR) are highly heterogenous and increasingly prevalent. We explored whether cancer surgery should be considered an independent risk factor for worse IHR perioperative outcomes. METHODS Patients undergoing IHR between 2018 and 2020 were identified within the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC). Regression models were used to assess associations between cancer operation history and 30 d surgical site occurrences-exclusive of infection (SSO-EIs), surgical site infections (SSIs), reoperations, time to recurrence, and quality of life (QoL) scores. Cancer cohort subgroup analysis was performed for operative approach and mesh location. RESULTS 8019 patients who underwent IHR were identified in the ACHQC, 1321 of which had a history of cancer operation. Cancer cohort patients were more likely to be older, males with a higher ASA status and lower BMI, and have longer and wider hernias (p < 0.001). After adjusting for confounding, the cancer cohort was less likely to experience SSO-EIs (OR 0.74, 95% CI 0.59-0.94 p = 0.0092) and showed lower odds of SSIs, reoperations, and recurrence (SSI OR 0.7, 95% CI 0.47-1.05, p = 0.0542; reoperation OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.37-1.17, p = 0.1002; recurrence OR 0.8, 95% CI 0.63-1.02, p = 0.08). There was no difference in postoperative QoL scores between cohorts. There were also no differences in perioperative or QoL outcomes within the cancer cohort based on operative approach or mesh location. CONCLUSION These data show no evidence that history of cancer operation predisposes patients to worse incisional hernia repair perioperative or quality of life outcomes.
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- R Lamm
- Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 111 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA.
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 111 South 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA
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Haisley KR, Vadlamudi C, Gupta A, Collins CE, Renshaw SM, Poulose BK. Greatest Quality of Life Improvement in Patients With Large Ventral Hernias: An Individual Assessment of Items in the HerQLes Survey. J Surg Res 2021; 268:337-346. [PMID: 34399356 DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2021.06.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Ventral hernia repair (VHR) has been shown to improve overall quality of life (QOL) by the validated 12-question Hernia-Related Quality-of-Life survey (HerQLes). However, which specific aspects of quality of life are most affected by VHR have not been formally investigated. METHODS Through retrospective analysis of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative national database, we measured the change in each individual component of the HerQLes questionnaire from a pre-operative baseline assessment to one-year postoperatively in VHR patients. RESULTS In total, 1,875 VHR patients had completed both pre- and post-operative questionnaires from 2014-2018. They were predominately Caucasian (92.3%), 57.9 ± 12.4 Y old, and evenly gender split (50.5% male, 49.5% female, P = 0.31). Most operations were performed open (80.5%) with fewer laparoscopic (7.5%) or robotic cases (12.1%). For each of the 12 individual categories, improvement in QOL from baseline to 1-Y was found to be statistically significant (P < 0.0001). This held true with subgroup analysis of small (<2 cm), medium (2-6 cm), and large (>6 cm) hernias (P < 0.0001), though a larger improvement was seen in 8 of 12 components in hernias >6 cm (P < 0.001). Operative approach did not carry a significant effect except in medium hernias (2-6 cm), where an open approach saw a greater improvement in the "accomplish less at work" item (P = 0.02). CONCLUSIONS VHR is associated with improvement in each of the 12 components of QOL measured in the HerQLes questionnaire, regardless of the size of their hernia. The amount of improvement, however, may be dependent on hernia size and approach.
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- Kelly R Haisley
- Division of GI and General Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Columbus, Ohio.
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- Division of GI and General Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Center for Surgical Health Assessment Research and Policy (SHARP), Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of GI and General Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Center for Surgical Health Assessment Research and Policy (SHARP), Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of GI and General Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Center for Surgical Health Assessment Research and Policy (SHARP), Columbus, Ohio
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- Division of GI and General Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Columbus, Ohio
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