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Sustained Growth of a University-Based Endocrine Surgery Program Over 10 Years

Overview of attention for article published in Annals of Surgical Oncology, July 2017
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Title
Sustained Growth of a University-Based Endocrine Surgery Program Over 10 Years
Published in
Annals of Surgical Oncology, July 2017
DOI 10.1245/s10434-017-6012-2
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Authors

Shonan Sho, Emily S. Singer, Eric Kwok, Randi Hissom, Avital Harari, Masha J. Livhits, Michael W. Yeh

Abstract

Endocrine surgery continues to mature as a subspecialty field. We describe the clinical performance of an academic endocrine surgery program (ESP) over its first 10 years. We examined all endocrine procedures performed during the 10-year period (2006-2015) following the inception of the ESP. Institutional and state-level data on case volume, patient geographic origin, and hospital-side costs were obtained. Endocrine case volume increased by approximately ninefold over the study period (from 102 cases in 2006 to 919 cases in 2015). The rate of growth remained approximately linear, and was driven by geographic expansion of referral regions coupled with transitioning low- to moderate-acuity operations to venues outside of the main tertiary care hospital. Market share across the eight-county Southern California region grew by more than twofold over the study period. Increased utilization of outpatient surgery led to cost reductions, averaging 11.1% per case by 2015. Establishment of an academic ESP can lead to sustained clinical growth and a fundamental shift in regional referral patterns. The nation's continued need for skilled high-volume endocrine surgeons represents opportunities for medical centers to institute their own dedicated endocrine surgery programs.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 25%
Unknown 2 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 50%
Psychology 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2017.
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#6,094,807
of 22,999,744 outputs
Outputs from Annals of Surgical Oncology
#1,980
of 6,529 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,434
of 317,079 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annals of Surgical Oncology
#52
of 99 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 6,529 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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