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Treatment Delays in Primarily Resected Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: National Benchmarks and Survival Associations
Morse E, Judson B, Husain Z, Burtness B, Yarbrough WG, Sasaki C, Cheraghlou S, Mehra S. Treatment Delays in Primarily Resected Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: National Benchmarks and Survival Associations. Otolaryngology 2018, 159: 987-997. PMID: 30060700, DOI: 10.1177/0194599818779052.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHPV-positive patientsRadiation treatment durationTotal treatment packageOverall survivalTreatment initiationTreatment durationEnd intervalOropharyngeal cancerTreatment delayTreatment packageOropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomaCox proportional hazards regressionMultivariable logistic regression analysisRadiation treatmentRetrospective cross-sectional analysisNational Cancer DatabaseProportional hazards regressionSquamous cell carcinomaDuration of diagnosisLogistic regression analysisNational benchmarksCross-sectional analysisMedian durationOverall cohortHazards regression
2020
An Analysis of Otolaryngology Medical Malpractice Payments From the National Practitioner Data Bank
Breen CT, Mehra S. An Analysis of Otolaryngology Medical Malpractice Payments From the National Practitioner Data Bank. Otolaryngology 2020, 164: 589-594. PMID: 32691675, DOI: 10.1177/0194599820942498.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPatient ageNational Practitioner Data BankMalpractice paymentsRetrospective cross-sectional analysisMean paymentCross-sectional analysisInsignificant injuryBrain damageLifelong careMedian paymentPatientsNumber of otolaryngologistsMedical malpractice paymentsOtolaryngologistsInjurySeveritySignificant decreaseAgeAnnual numberDescriptive statisticsPayment amountAssociationYearsLinear regression