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This secondary analysis of the Comparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) randomized clinical trial investigates the association between patients’ belief in treatment success and outcomes regarding antibiotic management for appendicitis.

This nonrandomized controlled trial evaluates the overall and disease-free survival rates as well as adverse events associated with combined neoadjuvant intensity-modulated radiotherapy and hepatectomy.

This study attempts to determine whether Black Medicare patients have similar rates of surgical consultations when compared with White Medicare patients after being admitted from the emergency department with an emergency general surgery condition.

This systematic review and meta-analysis estimates the accuracy of thyroid fine-needle biopsy for diagnosis of malignancy in adults with a newly diagnosed thyroid nodule and characterizes changes in accuracy over time.

This nonrandomized regression discontinuity study investigates if expanded access to health care among previously separate health care systems—the Veterans Health Administration and non–Veterans Health Administration community—is associated with surgical outcomes.

This cohort study measures the adherence to the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) palliative care guidelines among patients with serious illness at a level I trauma center in the United States.

This cross-sectional study compares the number of men and women surgeons who received research funding from the National Institutes of Health from 2010 to 2020 and the total grant funding they received.

This study evaluates whether use of postoperative surgical prophylaxis is correlated with surgical site infection rates in children undergoing nonemergent surgery.

This cohort study evaluates the association of oncologic prognosis with minimal access breast surgery vs conventional surgery.

This cohort study assesses population-based estimates for 1-year mortality after major surgery among community-living older US adults and whether these estimates differ according to key demographic, surgical, and geriatric characteristics.