2024
American College of Surgeons Operative Standards and Breast Cancer Outcomes
Taylor C, Wang T, Baskin A, Sinco B, Hughes T, Boffa D, Boughey J, Dossett L. American College of Surgeons Operative Standards and Breast Cancer Outcomes. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2446345. PMID: 39565622, PMCID: PMC11579798, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.46345.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmerican College of SurgeonsSentinel lymph node biopsyAxillary lymph node dissectionInvasive breast cancerLymph node yieldNodal positivity rateShort-term oncological outcomesBreast cancerCohort studyNational Cancer DatabaseNodal yieldAmerican CollegeFacility-level variationNodal upstaging rateCohort study of womenUpstaging rateOncological outcomesNode yieldHospital registry dataPotential associationStudy of womenAxillary surgeryCollege of SurgeonsMain OutcomesPoisson regression
2020
Costs Associated With Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: An Analysis Merging STS and Medicare Data
Medbery RL, Fernandez FG, Kosinski AS, Tong BC, Furnary AP, Feng L, Onaitis M, Boffa D, Wright CD, Cowper P, Jacobs JP, Putnam JB, Habib RH. Costs Associated With Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: An Analysis Merging STS and Medicare Data. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2020, 111: 1781-1790. PMID: 33188754, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.08.073.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLung cancerHospital characteristicsMedicare dataClinical stage I lung cancerCare costsRecurrent laryngeal nerve paresisStage I lung cancerEarly-stage lung cancerThoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery DatabaseI lung cancerPreoperative patient factorsChronic kidney diseaseGeneral Thoracic Surgery DatabaseLaryngeal nerve paresisSeverity of complicationsBody mass indexCase-mix factorsCare of patientsNumber of complicationsThoracic Surgery DatabaseNerve paresisPerioperative outcomesPostoperative complicationsRespiratory failureExpiratory volume
2019
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2019 Update on Research
Crabtree TD, Boffa DJ, Lobdell KW, Habib RH, Gaissert HA. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2019 Update on Research. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2019, 108: 1293-1298. PMID: 31520641, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.09.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBiomedical ResearchDatabases, FactualHumansSocieties, MedicalThoracic SurgeryThoracic Surgical ProceduresTreatment OutcomeUnited States
2017
Using the National Cancer Database for Outcomes Research: A Review
Boffa DJ, Rosen JE, Mallin K, Loomis A, Gay G, Palis B, Thoburn K, Gress D, McKellar DP, Shulman LN, Facktor MA, Winchester DP. Using the National Cancer Database for Outcomes Research: A Review. JAMA Oncology 2017, 3: 1722-1728. PMID: 28241198, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.6905.Peer-Reviewed Original Research