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Abdominal Adhesions to Prosthetic Mesh Evaluated by Laparoscopy and Electron Microscopy

Advanced Surgical Technology Experience Valuable to the Basic Education of General Surgery Residents (140K PDF)

The Advisory Councils, The College at Work (408K PDF)

American College of Surgeons Seal, history of

American College of Surgeons: Strategic plan for 2001 and beyond (90K PDF)

Axillary Dissection, The role of, in Mammographically Detected Carcinoma

Axillary Lymph Node Metastases in T1a and T1b Breast
Carcinomas, Predictive Factors Associated with (Analysis in
More Than 900 Patients)

B

Blood Substitute (First Randomized Trial of Polymerized Hemoglobin in Acute Trauma and Emergency Surgery)

Blunt Trauma, and Operative Care in Microgravity

Breast Biopsy (Sterotactic), an Overview

Breast Biopsy (Stereotactic), Physician Qualifications

Breast Cancer in Young Women, Stage 0 to Stage III

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons
(The full-texts of many articles from the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons are now available online. To access the Bulletin online, click on the link above.)

C

The Canadian Medical Protective Association

Caps on Malpractice Awards: Update

The Case for the Physician Defendant at Plaintiff's Expert Witness Deposition (97K PDF)

The ACS Chapters: Where do we go from here? (45K PDF)

Cholecystectomy, the role of in AIDS

Cholecystectomy, Hospital Competition and Managed Care

The College at Work: The Advisory Councils (408K PDF)

Confidentiality in Peer Review, The Challenge to

Congress, the 106th: A Review of the First Session (288K PDF)

Congress in Y2K, the US: Will Surgical Patients Benefit? (126K PDF)

Consultation for Trauma Systems (220K PDF)

Cost of Hospital Admission, Length of Stay Has Minimal Impact on the

CPT changes in 2000 (88K PDF)

CPT Changes in 2001 (100K PDF)

CPT Changes in 2002 (129K PDF)

Criminalization of Medical Negligence

Current status of the National Practitioner Data Bank (250K PDF)

Cybersurgeon, Simulation Technologies: Advanced Simulation

Cybersurgeon, The College Goes Online

Cybersurgeon, Getting Connected

Designing a Web site for your practice: What you should know (21K PDF)

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Double-digit premium hikes: The latest crisis in professional liability (46K PDF)

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E-mail confidentiality issues, What doctors should know about (29K PDF)

E-mail from Africa connects surgeon and teen (250K PDF)

Education, Advance Simulation Technologies for Surgical Education

Education tool, The Internet as a patient/medical (34K PDF)

Effective online CME: It's only a matter of time (90K PDF)

Emergent Technology, Can Using [it] Incur Liability?

Endometriosis, Incisional: An Underappreciated Diagnosis in General Surgery

Equipment for Ambulances (45K PDF)

Expert Witness, College Works to Address Expert Witness Issues

The Expert Medical Witness: Concerns, Limits, and Remedies
(88K PDF)

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Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS) Manual

Federal commissions and advisory committees (31K PDF)

Federal programs providing health insurance to children: A review (78K PDF)

Fires in the Operating Room

The "five-year review" (30K PDF)

Fraud and abuse part I, Complex rules in place to combat: Understanding the basics (75K PDF)

Fraud and abuse part II, Complex rules in place to combat: The surgical perspective on selected federal programs (281K PDF)

Frequently Performed [Surgical] Procedures

G

Gastric Bypass, Stomal Ulcer After

Gloves, Latex Allergy

Grant Applications, Young Surgical Investigators' Guide to

Grant Writing, Recommendations for First-Time Grant Writers

Grassroots advocacy at the state level (33K PDF)

Grievances, Patient

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Hatcher, Charles R, Jr.(Hands on approach to patient grievances: An interview with Charles R. Hatcher Jr., MD, FACS)

HCFA Releases 2002 Medicare Fee Schedule (40K PDF)

Health care and the state legislatures: The year in review (100K PDF)

The Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (26K PDF)

Health care organizations wield influence in Washington (58K PDF)

Helmet Removal from Injured Patients, Techniques of (175 K PDF)

Hernia Repair, Inguinal

Hernia Repair, Laparoscopic Ventral and Incisional in 407 Patients

Hernia Repair, Transabdominal Hiatus

Hopital Lumiere, Hati: A call to care (725K PDF)

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Improving Safety for Surgical Patients: Suggested Strategies (72K PDF)

In their own words: Serving on the practicing physicians advisory council (50K PDF)

Incisional Endometriosis: An Underappreciated Diagnosis in General Surgery

Informed Consent

Informed Consent and Refusal, Update Your Record-Keeping Skills (70K PDF)

The Internet as a patient/medical education tool (34K PDF)

Internet broadens surgical education environment (23K PDF)

In their own words: One man's mission against cancer (120K PDF)

In their own words: Why young surgeons must get involved (43K PDF)

Intractable Cirrhotic Ascites

IOM Report on medical errors leads to questions about the NPDB (30K PDF)

J

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
(Full-text articles from the Journal of the American College of Surgeons are now available online. To access the Journal online, click on the link above.)

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Key health policy makers in the 107th Congress (548K PDF)

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Laparoscopic Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair in 407 Patients

Late, partial, or denied payment or lost claims (38K PDF)

Latex Allergy

Length of Stay Has Minimal Impact on the Cost of Hospital Admission

Lessons from an HCV-infected surgeon (100K PDF)

Liability Claims, Reduction of Frequency

Liability Premium Increases may Offer Opportunities for Change (27K PDF)

Longitudinal Study of Surgical Residents (1994–1996)

Low Molecular Weight Heparins: Current Use and Indications

Lymphatic Mapping and the Significance of Sentinel Node Biopsy Syllabus: 1999 Clinical Congress Postgraduate Course 22:
(403 K PDF)

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Making Washington work for you: "All politics is local" (160 K PDF)

Malpractice Awards, Update on Caps

Malpractice Litigation, The Power of Words in

Malpractice Screening Panels

Mammographically Detected Carcinoma, Axillary Dissection

Managed Care, Hospital Competition and Cholecystectomy

Managed care, prespectives on: A call for change (32K PDF)

Manuscript Preparation and Submission (Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS))

Initial Management of Maxillofacial Injuries (125 K PDF)

Medical Meetings: The real value (138K PDF)

Medical Negligence, The Criminalization of

Medical records confidentiality issue, The status of the (200K PDF)

Medicare coverage process, Changes in the (30K PDF)

Medicare Instructions on Billing for Consultations, new

Medicare's new hospital outpatient prospective payment system (37K PDF)

Microgravity, Blunt Trauma and Operative Care

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The National Patient Safety Foundation: What it offers surgeons

National Practitioner Data Bank: The NPDB and Surgical Residents (Letters to the Editor)

National Practitioner Data Bank, What You Need to Know About the

National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) Report 2004 (4,700K PDF)

New Technology and New Approaches to Surgical Education (54K PDF)

O

Office-based surgery regulation: Improving patient safety and quality care
(100K PDF)

The OIG's compliance guidance for individual and small group practices (29K PDF)

Online CME, effective: It's only a matter of time (90K PDF)

P

Patient Care Evaluation Studies, National Cancer Data Base

Patient Choice, Retaining the right to

Patient Privacy and Health Information Confidentiality (66K PDF)

Patient Safety Initiatives Follow IOM Report (26K PDF)

Pedestrian Versus Motor Vehicle Accidents: An Analysis of 5,000 Patients

Peer Review, the Challenge to Confidentiality in

Peripheral Cholangiocarcinoma, Hepatic Resection and Transplantation for

Physician Data Profiling Proliferates (95K PDF)

Physician Defendant at Plaintiff's Expert Witness Deposition, Case for the (97K PDF)

Physicians and the war on drugs: The case for legalization (68K PDF)

Physicians and the war on drugs: The case against legalization (62K PDF)

Physicians as Assistants at Surgery: 2007 Study (950K PDF)

Portacaval Shunt, for Intractable Cirrhotic Ascites

Practice Expenses and the RBRVS revisited (63K PDF)

Practice Guidelines and Liability Implications

Predictive Factors Associated with Axillary Lymph Node Metastases in T1a and T1b Breast Carcinomas: Analysis in More
Than 900 Patients

Professional Liability Insurance, How To Select (50K PDF)

Proposal Writing

Prostate and Bladder Cancer Sreening

Prosthetic Mesh Evaluated by Laparoscopy and Electron Microscopy, Abdominal Adhesions to

Q

Qualifications, Physician, for Stereotactic Breast Biopsy

Qualified Surgeons, Who Should Do Your Operation

Qualified Surgeons, What to Look For

R

Rectal Anastomoses [Stapled], Factors Associated with the Occurrence of leaks in

Reimbursement strategies, on the cutting edge of: The ACS develops new techniques (113K PDF)

Residents, Surgical (Longitudinal Study of: 1994–1996)

S

Save the Charts: For Whom and for What? (185K PDF)

Scholarships (Awards and Fellowships)

Scope of practice for nonsurgeons keeps expanding (62K PDF)

Scrutiny of EMTALA grows as its scope expands (138K PDF)

Seal [American College of Surgeons], history of

Second Opinion, Seeking

9/11: Another reason to "ungate" halth care (70K PDF)

Significance of Sentinel Node Biopsy , Lymphatic Mapping and the (Syllabus: 1999 Clinical Congress Postgraduate Course 22)
(403 K PDF)

Simulation Technologies: Advanced Simulation (Cybersurgeon)

Socioeconomic Tips of the Month

Special Review: Millennial Memories Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics

Stage 0 to Stage III Breast Cancer in Young Women

State legislatures 2001: The year in review (62K PDF)

Stereotactic Percutaneous Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy Instrument and the Complete Removal of Nonpalpable Breast Malignancies

Stomal Ulcer After Gastric Bypass

Strategic plan for 2001 and beyond (90K PDF)

Surgeon Takes Flight to Deliver Improved Sight Worldwide (620K PDF)

Surgeons offer survival strategey for the new millennium (105K PDF)

Surgeons pocket PDAs to end paper chase: Part I (290K PDF)

Surgeons Pocket PDAs to End Paper Chase: Part II (230K PDF)

Surgery, What's New in [2000]

Surgical CAC representatives: Liaisons between Medicare carriers and the profession (40K PDF)

Surgical Outcomes, adjusted (Validating Risk)

Surgical practice, a model of a successful (57K PDF)

Surgical Research Clearinghouse (Link to annual list of publications)

Surgical residencies: Are we still attracting the best and the brightest? (165K PDF)

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Trauma Performance Improvement: A Reference Manual (1400K PDF)

The 2000 Medicare fee schedule (31K PDF)

The 2001 Medicare fee schedule (35K PDF)

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Uniform standards for electronic claims (33K PDF)

Update Your Record-Keeping Skills: Informed Consent and Refusal (70K PDF)

Virtual reality surgery: Has the future arrived? (39K PDF)

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What doctors should know about e-mail confidentiality issues
(29K PDF)

What's New in Surgery 1999

What's New in Surgery 2000

What Surgeons Should Know about...

What We Can and Can't Do: One Surgeon's Perspective (50K PDF)

When You Need an Operation

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Young Surgeons, Future Challenges for

Young Surgical Investigators' Guide to Grant Application

Revised June 25, 2007