Find the current MU Surgical Center for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness (MUSCORE) projects.
Health Services Projects
Bariatric Surgery
- What are the factors that influence outcomes in patients undergoing revisional or foregut procedures after primary bariatric surgery?
- Trapped Behind Barbs: A Series of Small Bowel Obstruction after Gastric Bypass
Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Incidence of Pseudohernia Development and its Risk Factors Following Open, Video-Assisted, & Robot-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Anatomical Lung Resection
- Management of Esophageal Perforation at a tertiary care hospital
Plastic Surgery
- Evaluation of Motor Dysfunction in Patients Sustaining a Stroke
- The effects of COVID-19 on clinical rotations for medical students, and their readiness as incoming PGY-1 residents
Trauma Surgery
- Assessing Patient Flow from ICU to Integrated Medicine Unit in TBI Trauma Patients
- Retrospective analysis of management of necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) and related complications in the setting of rural communities
- Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Procedures
- Hospital course and outcomes of emergency general surgery patients admitted during the COVID era
- Incidence and Correlates of Post-ICU Syndrome in the SICU
- Implementation of a standard peri-procedural fasting protocol to improve caloric requirements of patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit
- Physiological Modeling for Noninvasive Monitoring of Cardiovascular Health via Ballistocardiography
- Proficiency development for incoming surgical and emergency medicine interns, using skills level-appropriate mastery learning for chest tube placement
Urology Surgery
- Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
- Artificial intelligence for procedural consent
- Presentation and Disposition of Patients with Hematuria in the Emergency Department
- RESECT (transurethral Resection and Single instillation intravesical chemotherapy Evaluation in bladder Cancer Treatment)
Vascular Surgery
- Complex Endovascular Aortic Repair
- Evaluation of Lower Extremity Vascular Lesions and Treatment Methods
- Evaluation of outcomes from EVAR and TEVAR
- Vascular reconstruction outcomes after portal vein and/or superior mesenteric vein reconstruction following a pancreaticoduodenectomy
- The (IRAD) International Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection
- Using Information Technology to Improve Transitions of Care after Vascular Surgery
- Contemporary outcomes Following Endologix Endografts for Non-Aneurysmal Aortic Pathology
- A comparative analysis of Endologix grafts for aneurysm and non-aneurysmal aortic disorders
- Endovascular Therapy for Vascular Disease: A population-level evaluation of changes in utilization, outcomes, and threshold for intervention
- Outcomes following treatment of superficial femoral artery peripheral arterial disease by endovascular intervention with Viabahn stenting
- United States Laser In-Situ Fenestrated EVAR (LIFE) Registry
- Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) with the use of electroencephalogram (EEG) at the University of Missouri
Clinical Trials
Bariatric Surgery
- Biometabolic Outcomes After Weight Loss Surgery: An Individualized Approach
- Biometabolic and Clinical Outcomes in Obese and Bariatric Patients
Neurosurgery
- The MIRROR Registry: Minimally Invasive IntRaceRebral HemORrhage Evacuation
- RESTORE: REal-World Analyses of Stroke – Thrombus Occlusion REtrieval
- MIND: A Prospective, Multicenter Study of Artemis a Minimally Invasive Neuro Evacuation Device, in the Removal of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Comparison of Anti-coagulation and anti-Platelet Therapies for Intracranial Vascular Atherostenosis (CAPTIVA)
Plastic Surgery
- Effect of Drain Care on Infection Rate and Quality of Life in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction
- Appropriate Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Duration Following Cat Bites to the Hand/Forearm: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded, Clinical Trial
Trauma Surgery
- A Prospective, Double-Blind, Placebo-controlled Study of Suramin in Subjects with Furosemide Resistant Acute Kidney Injury (AKI): Efficacy in Preventing Dialysis Dependent AKI
Urology
- A Phase 3, Single-Arm, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of UGN-102 as Primary Chemoablative Therapy in Patients with Low Grade (LG) Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) at Intermediate Risk (IR) of Recurrence
- uTRACT Jelmyto® Registry
Vascular Surgery
- A Prospective Single-Arm Multicenter StuDy of the BarE TEmporary SPur StEnt System foR the tREatment of Vascular lesions located in the infrapoplitEal Arteries beLow the knee (DEEPER REVEAL)
- JAGUAR Trial: ObJective Analysis to GaUge EVAR Outcomes Through Randomization
- Prospective, multicenter, non-randomized study with consecutive, eligible subject enrollment at each site, for the evaluation of the ChEVAS System for Endovascular Repair of Paravisceral, Juxtarenal, and Pararenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
- A prospective, multicentre observational study to evaluate the BioMimics 3D®1 Vascular Stent System in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease
- Randomized controlled clinical trial on the application of Heli-FX EndoAnchors in conjunction with the Endurant II/IIs endograft in infrarenal aortic aneurysms with a wide infrarenal neck (HERCULES TRIAL)
- SAVE-FistulaS: the SelfWrap-Assisted ArterioVEnous Fistulas Study (VenoStent)
- A Comparison of the GORE® VIABAHN®1 VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis (VBX) to Bare Mental Stenting for Patients with Complex Iliac Occlusive Disease