 General Surgery
"General Surgery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
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D013502
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.810.300
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "General Surgery" by people in this website by year, and whether "General Surgery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2015 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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McLean RC, Young J, Musbahi A, Lee JX, Hidayat H, Abdalla N, Chowdhury S, Baker EA, Etherson KJ. A single-centre observational cohort study to evaluate volume and severity of emergency general surgery admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Is there a "lockdown" effect? Int J Surg. 2020 Nov; 83:259-266.
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Wiegmann AL, Khalid SI, Coogan AC, Xu TQ, DeCesare LA, Skertich NJ, Velasco J, Myers JA. Antithrombotic prescriptions for many general surgery patients significantly increases the likelihood of post-operative bleeding complications. Am J Surg. 2020 03; 219(3):453-459.
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Aloia TA, Keller DS, Kowalski RB, Lin H, Luciano MM, Myers JA, Sinha P, Spaniolas K, Young-Fadok TM. Enhanced recovery program implementation: an evidence-based review of the art and the science. Surg Endosc. 2019 11; 33(11):3833-3841.
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Veenstra BR, Wojtowicz A, Walsh N, Velasco JM. The emergency surgical airway: Bridging the gap from quality outcome to performance improvement through a novel simulation based curriculum. Am J Surg. 2019 03; 217(3):562-565.
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Fleetwood VA, Veenstra B, Wojtowicz A, Kerchberger J, Velasco J. Communication through simulation: Developing a curriculum to teach interpersonal skills. Surgery. 2018 10; 164(4):802-809.
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Orkin BA, Poirier J, Kowal-Vern A, Chan E, Ohara K, Mendoza B. Effect of protected research time on ABSITE scores during general surgery residency. Am J Surg. 2018 Feb; 215(2):322-325.
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Meyerson SL, Lipnick S, Hollinger E. The Usage of Mock Oral Examinations for Program Improvement. J Surg Educ. 2017 Nov - Dec; 74(6):946-951.
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Laude K, Buchholz SW, Rodts M. Improving Patient Education at a Large Midwest Urban Orthopaedic Center. Orthop Nurs. 2017 Mar/Apr; 36(2):133-139.
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Messiou C, Vanel D, Pollock R, Cooke M, Moskovic E, Savidge C, King L, Patel A, Jones RL. Dear John Hunter. BMJ. 2016 12 14; 355:i6515.
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Higgins RM, Deal RA, Rinewalt D, Hollinger EF, Janssen I, Poirier J, Austin D, Rendina M, Francescatti A, Myers JA, Millikan KW, Luu MB. The utility of mock oral examinations in preparation for the American Board of Surgery certifying examination. Am J Surg. 2016 Feb; 211(2):416-20.
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