Comfort With Sharing Food Insecurity Risk for Clinical Care Among Individuals With and Without a Cancer History: Findings From a National Survey.

Introduction: Food insecurity negatively affects timely access to care, treatment adherence, quality of life, and survival among cancer survivors. There is limited knowledge about cancer survivors' comfort with sharing food insecurity risk for clinical care on a national scale. This study aims to assess comfort with sharing food insecurity risk for clinical care among adults with and without a cancer history and to identify factors that may be associated with comfort for sharing food insecurity risk.

Predicting Unplanned Intubations in Rib Fracture Patients: An Interpretable Machine Learning Approach.

BackgroundTraumatic rib fractures can lead to respiratory complications necessitating unplanned intubation, but predictors have been inadequately delineated. We used interpretable machine learning to predict unplanned intubations in rib fracture patients while identifying predictors.MethodsTQIP 2017-2022 was queried for adult patients admitted to the hospital following a rib fracture injury.

Causation Not Correlation: Simple Mediation Analysis of Amputation Costs.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted health-care delivery and hospital financials. This study aims to identify the pandemic's effects on costs associated with nonelective major lower extremity amputation (LEA) and mediating factors influencing this cost.

Methods: The 2019-2021 Florida Agency for Health Care Administration database was queried for adult patients who underwent nonelective LEA.

Mediation analysis identifies causal factors that lead to increased rates of kidney transplant failure in patients with peripheral vascular disease.

Background: This study aims to identify causal mediators of one-year kidney transplant failure in patients with peripheral vascular disease.

Methods: Standard Transplant Analysis and Research database was queried for adults who underwent kidney transplantation from 1987 to 2021. Multi-organ transplant, prior transplant, and living donor kidneys were excluded.

PREDICTING UNPLANNED TRAUMA INTENSIVE CARE UNIT ADMISSIONS FOR INITIAL NONOPERATIVE, NON-ICU PATIENTS.

Introduction: Unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admissions are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. This study uses interpretable machine learning to predict unplanned ICU admissions for initial nonoperative trauma patients admitted to non-ICU locations. Methods: TQIP (2020-2021) was queried for initial nonoperative adult patients admitted to non-ICU locations.

The continued financial effect of COVID: Increasing costs for non-elective major lower extremity amputations.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated changes in processes of care, which significantly impacted surgical care. This study evaluated the impact of these changes on patient outcomes and costs for non-elective major lower extremity amputations (LEA).

Methods: The 2019-2021 Florida Agency for Health Care Administration database was queried for adult patients who underwent non-elective major LEA.

The downtrending cost of robotic bariatric surgery: a cost analysis of 47,788 bariatric patients.

The surgical robot is assumed to be a fixed, indirect cost. We hypothesized rising volume of robotic bariatric procedures would decrease cost per patient over time. Patients who underwent elective, initial gastric bypass (GB) or sleeve gastrectomy (SG) for morbid obesity were selected from Florida Agency for Health Care Administration database from 2017 to 2021.

Nonelective coronary artery bypass graft outcomes are adversely impacted by Coronavirus disease 2019 infection, but not altered processes of care: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative and National Surgery Quality Improvement Program analysis.

Objective: The effects of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and altered processes of care on nonelective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) outcomes remain unknown. We hypothesized that patients with COVID-19 infection would have longer hospital lengths of stay and greater mortality compared with COVID-negative patients, but that these outcomes would not differ between COVID-negative and pre-COVID controls.

Methods: The National COVID Cohort Collaborative 2020-2022 was queried for adult patients undergoing CABG.

Association of state-level factors with rate of firearm-related deaths.

Background: Over 48,000 people died by firearm in the United States in 2021. Firearm violence has many inciting factors, but the full breadth of associations has not been characterized. We explored several state-level factors including factors not previously studied or insufficiently studied, to determine their association with state firearm-related death rates.