Petersen Hamrick

Demographic and clinical variables associated with feeling unhappy/upset or worse about how they look included country of residence, female gender, more severe cleft, anticipating future cleft-specific surgeries, and reporting lower (ie, worse) scores on CLEFT-Q appearance and health-related quality-of-life scales. CONCLUSION Most participants…[Read more]

Purpose To analyze the safety of laparoscopic ventral hernia delayed repair in bariatric patients with a composite mesh. Materials and methods This retrospective single-center observational trial analyzed all bariatric/obese patients with concomitant ventral hernia who underwent laparoscopic abdominal hernia repair before bariatric surgery (group…[Read more]

Advance care planning (ACP) is underutilized, especially among Black Americans. Yet, no ACP interventions have been tested at the community level.

Within an established academic and community partnership, we sought to determine whether ACP is a community-identified need and if so, to conduct a pilot study of an evidence-based ACP program,…[Read more]