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• ASO Visual Abstract: Treatment Disparities Partially Mediate Socioeconomic- and Race/Ethnicity-Based Survival Disparities in Stage I-II Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Douglas S Swords, Timothy E Newhook, Ching-Wei D Tzeng, Nader N Massarweh, Yun Shin Chun, Sunyoung Lee, Ahmed O Kaseb, Mark Ghobrial, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Hop S Tran Cao> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2023 Dec 1
• Treatment Disparities Partially Mediate Socioeconomic- and Race/Ethnicity-Based Survival Disparities in Stage I-II Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
  Douglas S Swords, Timothy E Newhook, Ching-Wei D Tzeng, Nader N Massarweh, Yun Shin Chun, Sunyoung Lee, Ahmed O Kaseb, Mark Ghobrial, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Hop S Tran Cao> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2023 Nov 1
• ASO Visual Abstract: Quality and Location of the Surgical Episode Mediate a Large Proportion of Socioeconomic-Based Survival Disparities for Patients with Resected Sta...
  Douglas S. Swords, Brian K Bednarski, Craig A Messick, Matthew M Tillman, George J. Chang, Y. Nancy You> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2021 Sep 9
• ASO Author Reflections: Understanding Factors That Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Survival After Surgery for Locoregional Colon Cancer.
  Douglas S. Swords, Y. Nancy You> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2021 Sep 1
• 2 citations
  Quality and Location of the Surgical Episode Mediate a Large Proportion of Socioeconomic-Based Survival Disparities in Patients with Resected Stage I–III Colon Cancer
  Douglas S. Swords, Brian K Bednarski, Craig A Messick, Matthew M Tillman, George J. Chang, Y. Nancy You> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2021 Aug 18
• ASO Author Reflections: Using Causal Mediation Analysis to Understand the Proportion of Survival Disparities Mediated by Potentially Modifiable Treatment Factors.
  Douglas S. Swords, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2021 Jun 1
• 3 citations
  Granular neighborhood-level socioeconomic data: An opportunity for a different kind of precision oncology?
  Douglas S. Swords, Courtney L. Scaife> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2021 Jan 20
• 6 citations
  County-level Variation in Use of Surgery and Cancer-specific Survival for Stage I-II Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.
  Douglas S. Swords, Sean J. Mulvihill, Benjamin S. Brooke, Gregory J. Stoddard, Matthew A. Firpo, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Annals of Surgery. 2020 Dec 1
• 8 citations
  Decompositions of the Contribution of Treatment Disparities to Survival Disparities in Stage I–II Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  Douglas S. Swords, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2021 Jun 1
• 20 citations
  Recurrence patterns in patients with Stage II melanoma: The evolving role of routine imaging for surveillance
  Josh Bleicher, Douglas S. Swords, Meghan E Mali, Lauren McGuire, Maranda K Pahlkotter, Elliot A. Asare, Tawnya L. Bowles, John R. Hyngstrom> ;Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2020 Dec 1
• 18 citations
  Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Opioid Prescribing in General Surgery.
  Liese C.C. Pruitt, Douglas S. Swords, Sathya Vijayakumar, Barbara Ostlund, Jeannette Prochazka, Nathan G. Richards, Brian T. Bucher, David E. Skarda> ;The Journal of Surgical Research. 2020 Mar 1
• 3 citations
  ASO Author Reflections: Socioeconomic Disparities in Use of Surgery for Gastrointestinal Cancers Are Large and Impactful in Poor-Prognosis Cancers.
  Douglas S. Swords, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2020 Feb 1
• 33 citations
  Size and Importance of Socioeconomic Status-Based Disparities in Use of Surgery in Nonadvanced Stage Gastrointestinal Cancers
  Douglas S. Swords, Sean J. Mulvihill, Benjamin S. Brooke, Matthew A. Firpo, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2020 Feb 1
• 9 citations
  Lymph Node Ratio in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma After Preoperative Chemotherapy vs. Preoperative Chemoradiation and Its Utility in Decisions About Postoperative Chemothe...
  Douglas S. Swords, Samual Francis, Shane Lloyd, Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, Sean J. Mulvihill, J.D. Gruhl, Miles C. Christensen, Gregory J. Stoddard, Matthew A. Firpo, Cou...> ;Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2019 Jul 1
• 4 citations
  Facility Variation in Local Staging of Rectal Adenocarcinoma and its Contribution to Underutilization of Neoadjuvant Therapy
  Douglas S. Swords, Benjamin S. Brooke, David E. Skarda, Gregory J. Stoddard, H. Tae Kim, William T. Sause, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2019 Jun 1
• 43 citations
  Prescription vs. consumption: Opioid overprescription to children after common surgical procedures
  Liese C.C. Pruitt, Douglas S. Swords, Katie W. Russell, Michael D. Rollins, David E. Skarda> ;Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2019 Apr 24
• 44 citations
  Disparities in utilization of treatment for clinical stage I-II pancreatic adenocarcinoma by area socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity.
  Douglas S. Swords, Sean J. Mulvihill, Benjamin S. Brooke, David E. Skarda, Matthew A. Firpo, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Surgery. 2019 Apr 1
• 3 citations
  Routine retrieval of pelvic sentinel lymph nodes for melanoma rarely adds prognostic information or alters management.
  Douglas S. Swords, Robert H.I. Andtbacka, Tawnya L. Bowles, John R. Hyngstrom> ;Melanoma Research. 2019 Feb 1
• 8 citations
  Surgeon-Level Variation in Utilization of Local Staging and Neoadjuvant Therapy for Stage II-III Rectal Adenocarcinoma
  Douglas S. Swords, David E. Skarda, William T. Sause, Ute Gawlick, George M. Cannon, Mark A. Lewis, Courtney L. Scaife, Jesse Gygi, H. Tae Kim> ;Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2019 Jan 31
• 35 citations
  Surgical overtreatment of pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms: Do the 2017 International Consensus Guidelines improve clinical decision making?
  Jeremy Sharib, Annabelle L. Fonseca, Douglas S. Swords, Katrin Jaradeh, Paige M. Bracci, Matthew A. Firpo, Stacy Hatcher, Courtney L. Scaife, Huamin Wang, Grace E. Kim...> ;Surgery. 2018 Dec 1
• 4 citations
  Perioperative antibiotics should be used for placement of implanted central venous ports: A propensity analysis evaluating risk.
  Courtney L. Scaife, Mary C. Mone, Megan E. Bowen, Douglas S. Swords, Chong Zhang, Angela P. Presson, Edward W. Nelson> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2018 Sep 21
• 15 citations
  Impact of insurance status on receipt of definitive surgical therapy and posttreatment outcomes in early stage lung cancer.
  Sean M. Stokes, Elliot Wakeam, Douglas S. Swords, John R. Stringham, Thomas K. Varghese> ;Surgery. 2018 Dec 1
• 15 citations
  Causes of Death and Conditional Survival Estimates of Medium- and Long-term Survivors of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  Douglas S. Swords, Sean J. Mulvihill, Matthew A. Firpo, Courtney L. Scaife> ;JAMA Oncology. 2018 Aug 1
• 7 citations
  Patient and caregiver perspectives on care coordination during transitions of surgical care.
  Benjamin S. Brooke, Stacey Slager, Douglas S. Swords, Charlene R. Weir> ;Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2018 May 23
• 14 citations
  Association of time-to-surgery with outcomes in clinical stage I-II pancreatic adenocarcinoma treated with upfront surgery
  Douglas S. Swords, Chong Zhang, Angela P. Presson, Matthew A. Firpo, Sean J. Mulvihill, Courtney L. Scaife> ;Surgery. 2017 Dec 13
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Journal Articles

• Lymph Node Ratio in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma After Preoperative Chemotherapy vs. Preoperative Chemoradiation and Its Utility in Decisions About Postoperative Chemothe...  
  Douglas S Swords, Samual R Francis, Courtney L Scaife, Sean J Mulvihill, Miles C Christensen, Shane Lloyd, Journal of gastrointestinal surgery