Background The ongoing pandemic is having a collateral health effect on delivery of surgical
care to millions of patients. Very little is known about pandemic management and effects on …

Background A watch-and-wait approach for patients with clinical complete response to
neoadjuvant chemoradiation could avoid the morbidity of conventional surgery for rectal cancer. …

… Baxter, as primary author, was responsible for all aspects related to initiating the topic,
reviewing the evidence, drafting the original manuscript for review by the Canadian Task Force on …

… Contigs between read pairs were assembled as described in this study, and any contigs
with an ambiguous base (ie, N) were culled, as were those sequences where there was no …

Background: Colonoscopy is advocated for screening and prevention of colorectal cancer (CRC),
but randomized trials supporting the benefit of this practice are not available. Objective…

THE QUESTION of the optimal capital structure of the business firm has attracted considerable
attention by economists in recent years. In their wellknown article of 1958, Modigliani and …

Background Evidence from observational studies that the use of surgical safety checklists
results in striking improvements in surgical outcomes led to the rapid adoption of such …

… In particular, we showed that small polyphenols have a value of n which is similar to the
combined number of (proline + arginine) residues in the sequence, implying that a binding site …

BACKGROUND & AIMS:: Most quality indicators for colonoscopy measure processes; little is
known about their relationship to patient outcomes. We investigated whether characteristics …

Background: Adequate lymph node evaluation is required for proper staging of colorectal
cancer, and the number of lymph nodes examined is associated with survival. According to …