November 2021 Issue of Neurosurgical Focus: “Innovations in Neurosurgical Quality and Safety”

Charlottesville, VA (November 1, 2021). The November issue of Neurosurgical Focus (Vol. 51, No. 5 [https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/51/5/neurosurg-focus.51.issue-5.xml]) presents nine articles and one editorial on innovations in patient care and improved outcomes across several neurosurgical subspecialties.

Topic Editors: Albert E. Telfeian, Ziya L. Gokaslan, Thomas Santarius, and Hyeun-Sung Kim        

As Topic Editor Albert Telfeian discusses in his editorial for this issue: “This Neurosurgical Focus issue on quality in neurosurgery is a collection of articles that are not on a new procedure or a new technology, but are all on a new way we can look at the challenges in quality in delivering neurosurgical care. The timing of the issue could not be better, because the coronavirus pandemic is essentially an evolutionary hurdle that neurosurgery processes can use to reboot how we do things.”

Contents of November issue:

• “Introduction: Innovations in neurosurgical quality and safety” by Albert E. Telfeian et al.
• “Remote video-based outcome measures of patients with Parkinson’s disease after deep brain stimulation using smartphones: a pilot study” by Xinmeng Xu et al.
• “Editorial: Neurosurgical healthcare delivery quality and “where we go from here” after the pandemic” by Albert E. Telfeian
• “Effects of an external ventricular drain alert protocol on venticulostomy placement time in the emergency department” by Henry Chang et al.
• “Improving patient care in neurosurgery through postoperative telephone calls: a systematic review and lessons from all surgical specialties” by Dylan Goehner et al.
• “Patient perception of scoliosis correction surgery on Instagram” by Nitin Agarwal et al.
• “Comparison of intracranial injury predictability between machine learning algorithms and the nomogram in pediatric traumatic brain injury” by Thara Tunthanathip et al.
• “Machine learning–augmented objective functional testing in the degenerative spine: quantifying impairment using patient-specific five-repetition sit-to-stand assessment” by Victor E. Staartjes et al.
• “Building and implementing an institutional registry for a data-driven national neurosurgical practice: experience from a multisite medical center” by Mohamad Bydon et al.
• “Validation of the Clavien-Dindo grading system of complications for microsurgical treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms” by Martina Sebök et al.
• “Toward more accurate documentation in neurosurgical care” by Rohaid Ali et al.

Please join us in reading this month’s issue of Neurosurgical Focus.

 

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For additional information, please contact Gillian Shasby, Director of Publications, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group, One Morton Drive, Suite 200, Charlottesville, VA 22903; Email: [email protected] Phone 434-924-5555.

Neurosurgical Focus, an online-only, monthly, peer-reviewed journal, covers a different neurosurgery-related topic in depth each month and is available free to all readers at http://www.thejns.org. Enhanced by color images and video clips, each issue constitutes a state-of-the-art “textbook chapter” in the field of neurosurgery. Neurosurgical Focus is one of six journals published by the JNS Publishing Group, the scholarly journal division of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Other peer-reviewed journals published by the JNS Publishing Group each month include Journal of Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons, and Neurosurgical Focus: Video. All six journals can be accessed at www.thejns.org.

Founded in 1931 as the Harvey Cushing Society, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is a scientific and educational association with more than 10,000 members worldwide. The AANS is dedicated to advancing the specialty of neurological surgery in order to provide the highest quality of neurosurgical care to the public. All active members of the AANS are certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Neurosurgery) of Canada, or the Mexican Council of Neurological Surgery, AC. Neurological surgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders that affect the entire nervous system including the brain, spinal column, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. For more information, visit www.AANS.org.