ACS Bulletin - December 2016

–NTDB data points: Cold-blooded killer (Fantus, Ezeamuzie), 101, 5: 53

–NTDB data points: Deadly rush hour (Fantus), 101, 9: 57

–NTDB data points: Don’t sugarcoat it (Fantus, Sakai), 101, 12: 74

–NTDB data points: Guns and the golden years (Fantus, Sakai), 101, 11: 54

–NTDB data points: Look up and die (Fantus, Fantus), 101, 4: 49

–NTDB data points: Keep an eye out (Fantus, Fantus), 101, 3: 50

–NTDB data points: The rise of the smombies and the fall of pedestrians (Fantus), 101, 8: 71

–N TDB data points: Stairway to heaven (Fantus), 101, 10: 67

–NTDB data points: The walking dead (Fantus), 101, 7: 57

–Your ACS benefits: SRGS and the COT trauma education programs: Keeping surgeons current on the provision of optimal patient care (Flint, Greer, Stewart, Drago, Hieronymus), 101, 2: 35

Young Fellows Association

–Not your father’s ACS: The view from the Chair of the YFA (Moalem), 101, 2: 24

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA)

Advancing the surgical agenda: AMA House of Delegates (Armstrong, Sutton), 101, 9: 68

AMA HOD approves ACS-sponsored resolution on mass casualty bleeding control, 101, 8: 76

JAMA Surgery publishes research agenda development at NIH-ACS symposium on disparities, 101, 5: 61

Modernizing the AMA Code of Medical Ethics ( Armstrong, Sutton), 101, 4: 55

B
BARIATRIC SURGERY (see: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
SURGEONS: Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accredi-
tation and Quality Improvement Program [MBSAQIP])
C
CANCER (see: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SUR-
GEONS: Commission on Cancer and AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: Alliance/ACS Clinical
Research Program)

CLINICAL TRIALS (see: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
SURGEONS: Alliance/ACS Clinical Research Program)
CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY
(CPT) (see also: PRACTICE MANAGEMENT and
REIMBURSEMENT)

Coding and practice management corner: Modifier 25 under fire: Are you using it correctly? (Savarise, Senkowski, Romano, Nagle), 101, 12: 65

D
DISASTER MANAGEMENT (see also: TRAUMA)

Empowerment over charity: How surgeons turned Armenia’s tragedy into an opportunity (Ariyan), 101, 2: 9

DISPARITIES IN SURGERY (see: GLOBAL SURGERY)
DIVERSITY IN SURGERY

ACS WiSC addresses ongoing challenges for women in surgery (Grassi, Fripp, Pories), 101, 11: 29

Women’s role in otolaryngologic medicine (Friedman, Fang, Zubair, Kalyoussef), 101, 12: 40

E
EDITORIAL

Looking forward (Hoyt), 101, 1: 8 (strategic planning); 2: 6 (integrated registry initiative); 3: 7 (FIRST Trial); 4: 7 (ACS communications); 5: 8 (quality collaboratives); 6: 8 (concurrent surgery); 7: 7 (Morehouse mentorship program); 8: 9 (team-based care); 9: 8 (Clinical Congress 2016); 10: 8 (surgical attire); 11: 9 (Quality Payment Program); 12: 9 (year-end wrap-up)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING (see also: AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: Resident and Associate
Society of the American College of Surgeons and
YOUNG SURGEONS)

FIRST Trial shows flexibility in resident work hours does not affect patient safety, 101, 3: 53

Looking forward [FIRST Trial] (Hoyt), 101, 3: 7
Using the ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator for sur-
gical education and quality improvement (Abelson,
Yeo, Pomp, Fehling, Michelassi), 101, 12: 29
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (see also: INFOR-
MATICS and LEGISLATION: Federal)