JAMA Surgery - Surgical Outcomes Club

As official journal of the Surgical Outcomes Club, JAMA Surgery provides SOC members with free access to high-quality articles, multimedia, and learning tools. Click here to access them.

Viewpoints from the 2018 Annual Meeting:

Smith AB, Brooke BS. How Implementation Science in Surgery is Done. JAMA Surgery. Epub ahead of print, 2019.
Massarweh NN, Kelz RR. From Policy to Patient Care - The Cycle of Health Policy Research. JAMA Surgery. Epub ahead of print, 2019.

Surgical Outcomes Club/JAMA Surgery Practical Guides to Datasets Series

Haider AH, Bilimoria KY, Kibbe MR. A Checklist to Elevate the Science of Surgical Database Research. JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(6):505-507.

Databases Covered in This Series:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project databases: National Inpatient Sample, State Inpatient Databases, and Kids’ Inpatient Database¹
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program²
Medicare Claims Data³
Military Health System Tricare Encounter Data⁴
Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program⁵
National Surgical Quality Improvement Program⁶
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program⁷
National Cancer Database⁸
National Trauma Data Bank⁹
Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative¹⁰
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database¹¹

Stulberg JJ, Haut ER. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample (NIS). JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(6):586-587.
Doll KM, Rademaker A, Sosa JA. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Database. JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(6):588-589.
Ghaferi AA, Dimick JB. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Medicare Claims Data. JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(6):677-678.
Schoenfeld AJ, Kaji AH, Haider AH. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Military Health System Tricare Encounter Data JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(7):679-680.
Massarweh NM, Kaji AH, Itani KMF. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP). JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(8):768-769.
Raval MV, Pawlik TM. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) and Pediatric NSQIP. JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(8):764-765.
Telem DA, Dimick JB. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Program (MBSAQIP). JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(8):766-767.
Merkow RP, Rademaker AW, Bilimoria KY. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: National Cancer Database (NCDB). JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(9):850-851.
Hashmi ZG, Kaji AH, Nathens AB. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB). JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(9):852-853.
Desai SS, Kaji AH, Upchurch G. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Improvement Program (SVS VQI). JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(10):957-958.
Farjah F, Kaji AH, Chu D. Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Database. JAMA Surgery. 2018; 153(10):955-956.

Viewpoints from the 2017 Annual Meeting:

Morris AM, Lee CN. Common Issues in the Unique Environment of Global Surgical Health Services Research. JAMA Surgery, 2018; 153(11):979-980.
Jackson GP, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Melton GB. Leveraging Health Information Technologies to Support Surgical Practice. JAMA Surgery, 2018; 153(11):981-982.
Brooke B, Smith A, Ghaferi A. Past and Future Role of the Surgical Outcomes Club in Advancing Surgical Outcomes and Health Services Research. JAMA Surgery, 2018; 153(12):1071-1072.

Viewpoints from the 2016 Annual Meeting:

Smith AB, Schwarze ML. Translating Patient-Reported Outcomes From Surgical Research to Clinical Care. JAMA Surgery. 2017; 152(9):811-812.
Weissman JS, Kelz RR, Lee CN. Appropriateness, Health Care Reform, and the Surgeon: Perspectives from the Surgical Outcomes Club. JAMA Surgery. 2017; 152(9):813-814.
Spertus JA, Ghaferi AA. Transforming the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to the Delivery of Precision Medicine to Improve the Value of Surgical Care: Summary of the John R. Clarke keynote Address for the Surgical Outcomes Club 2016 Annual Meeting. JAMA Surgery. 2017;152(9):815-816.

Viewpoints from the 2015 Annual Meeting:

Yule S, Sacks G, Maggard-Gibbons M. Innovative Approaches for Modifying Surgical Culture. JAMA Surgery. 2016; 151(9):791-792