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ment Award Program, Birmingham Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL QS40. SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION: CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT VERSUS EARLY OPERATIVE INTERVENTION ACCORDING TO ASA CLASS. D. Fritze, B. S. Miller; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
CLINICAL TRIALS AND OUTCOMES 6: DISPARITIES AND OUTCOMES QS41. RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN OVERALL AND BREAST CANCER-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL IN ADVANCED BREAST CANCER. S. L. Chen, S. R. Martinez; University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA QS42. OUTCOMES OF BREAST CANCER TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. M. Farasatpour1, C. Williams1, R. Janardhan1, J. A. Margenthaler2, K. S. Virgo3, F. E. Johnson1; 1St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO; 2 Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 3St. Louis VA Medical Center, St. Louis, MO QS43. BREAST RECONSTRUCTION REFERRAL PATTERNS IN MASTECTOMY PATIENTS AT A TERTIARY VETERANS AFFAIRS HOSPITAL. M. Leong1, C. Chike-Obi2, C. Basu2, E. Lee2, D. Albo1; 1Michael E. DeBakey VAMC & Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX QS44. DOES LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE INFLUENCE CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND SURGICAL OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM? A. A. Jabiev, J. I. Lew, W. Sumner, C. C. Solorzano; University of Miami, Miami, FL QS45. EXPLORING RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE USE OF ENDOVASCULAR TECHNOLOGY. N. H. Osborne, G. R. Upchurch, Jr., J. D. Birkmeyer, J. B. Dimick; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI QS46. EXPLAINING RACIAL DISPARITIES IN OUTCOMES FOR VASCULAR SURGERY: DO BLACK PATIENTS GO TO LOWER QUALITY HOSPITALS? N. H. Osborne, G. R. Upchurch, Jr., J. D. Birkmeyer, J. B. Dimick; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI QS47. AGE AND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN ACCESS TO HIGH VOLUME CENTERS FOR COLORECTAL CANCER. WHO MAKES THE CUT? A. J. Hayanga1, D. Mukherjee1, D. C. Chang1, H. E. Kaiser1, S. Gearhart2, N. Ahuja2, J. A. Freischlag2; 1Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Johns Hopkins Medical Instituitons, Baltimore, MD QS48. THE IMPACT OF AGE ON SURGICAL RESECTION RATES AND LONG-TERM SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH LOCOREGIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER. T. S. Riall, Y. Kuo, C. M. Townsend, Jr., J. Freeman, W. Nealon, J. S. Goodwin; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX QS49. DISPARITIES IN THE EVALUATION AND SURGICAL RESECTION RATES OF MEDICARE PATIENTS WITH
LOCOREGIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER. T. S. Riall, C. M. Townsend, Jr., Y. Kuo, W. H. Nealon, J. L. Freeman; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX QS50. SURVIVAL RATE AFTER CURATIVE-INTENT TREATMENT FOR PROSTATE CANCER IN PATIENTS WITH TOTAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. M. Ghazarian1, K. S. Virgo2, S. S. Feman1, J. L. VanEps1, L. N. Ledbetter1, M. Kumar3, F. E. Johnson1; 1Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; 2Saint Louis VAMC, St. Louis, MO; 3Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom QS51. HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES IN INFANTS: PYLORIC STENOSIS OUTCOMES STRATIFIED BY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. J. Finkelstein, E. F. Stamell, N. R. Zilbert, H. B. Ginsburg, E. P. Nadler; New York Universtiy School of Medicine, New York, NY QS52. OUTCOMES OF SURGICALLY MANAGED PEDIATRIC THYROID CANCER. A. E. Bargren1, G. Y. MeyerRochow2, L. W. Delbridge2, S. B. Sidhu2, H. Chen1; 1University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; 2University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia QS53. IMPROVED OUTCOMES WITH LAP VERSUS OPEN APPENDECTOMY FOR PERFORATED APPENDICITIS. R. Sleem, S. Fisher, M. Gestring, J. Cheng, N. Stassen, P. Bankey; University of Rochester Med Center, Rochester, NY QS54. REVIEW OF GROWTH AND CLINCAL OUTCOMES OF LAPAROSCOPIC AND OPEN COLECTOMY PERFORMED AT A REGIONAL ACADEMIC INSTITUTION. Y. Yurko, D. Stefanidis, A. E. Lincourt, G. Mostafa, K. W. Kercher, B. T. Henifrord; Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte, NC QS55. PANCREATODUODENECTOMY WITH OR WITHOUT PYLORIC PRESERVATION: A CLINICAL OUTCOMES COMPARISON. S. P. Dineen, C. L. Roland, R. E. Schwarz; UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX QS56. CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH PRIOR VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNTS. E. Allam1, A. Patel1, G. Lewis2, E. Mushi2, K. S. Virgo3, F. E. Johnson1; 1Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; 2Liverpool University, Liverpool, United Kingdom; 3Saint Louis VAMC, St. Louis, MO QS57. PEDIATRIC FOREGUT AND SMALL BOWEL SOLID TUMORS: A REVIEW. Y. Zhuge, M. C. Cheung, R. Yang, L. G. Koniaris, J. E. Sola; Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL QS58. DEVELOPMENT OF A CLINICAL RESEARCH DATABASE MODULE TO RECORD SIMULTANEOUS AND SEQUENTIAL TREATMENTS FACILITATES OUTCOMES ANALYSIS. T. A. Aloia, S. L. Jones, B. N. Fahy; The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX QS59. TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY: A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR GRAVES’ DISEASE. J. Liu, A. Bargren, S. Schaefer, H. Chen, R. S. Sippel; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI