Professor of Surgery Chief Medical Officer

General Surgery

Darrell A. Campbell Jr. works in the field of General Surgery. He studied medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine. George Washington University School of Medicine is ranked 67/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Darrell A. Campbell Jr. is a published doctor and has 92 publications published. The lastest was: 'Variation in Hospital Thromboprophylaxis Practices for Abdominal Cancer Surgery.'

Publications

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• Surgical site infection following hysterectomy: adjusted rankings in a regional collaborative.
• One-year postoperative resource utilization in sarcopenic patients.
• Variation in Hospital Thromboprophylaxis Practices for Abdominal Cancer Surgery.
• A checklist-based intervention to improve surgical outcomes in michigan: evaluation of the keystone surgery program.
• Unexpected gynecologic malignancy diagnosed after hysterectomy performed for benign indications.
• postoperative burden of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection.
• Use of other treatments before hysterectomy for benign conditions in a statewide hospital collaborative.
• Multi-institutional Assessment of Sphincter Preservation for Rectal Cancer.
• Differences in Hospital Performance for Noncancer vs Cancer Colorectal Surgery.
• The Importance of the First Complication: Understanding Failure to Rescue after Emergent Surgery in the Elderly.
• Anticipating the Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Surgical Care.
• Complication rates of ostomy surgery are high and vary significantly between hospitals.
• Implementation of a hospital-based quality assessment program for rectal cancer.
• Patients' Perspectives of Care and Surgical Outcomes in Michigan: An Analysis Using the CAHPS Hospital Survey.
• Variation in ambulatory surgery utilization in Michigan.
• A statewide colectomy experience: the role of full bowel preparation in preventing surgical site infection.
• Improving the care of elderly adults undergoing surgery in michigan.
• Comparison of prospective risk estimates for postoperative complications: human vs computer model.
• Developing an argument for bundled interventions to reduce surgical site infection in colorectal surgery.
• Failure to rescue and mortality following repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Hospital readmissions after colectomy: a population-based study.
• Baseline measure of alcohol-based skin preparation agents before 2011 National Quality Forum recommendation in a general surgery population.
• Emergent versus Elective Cholecystectomy: Conversion Rates and Outcomes.
• Improving mortality following emergent surgery in older patients requires focus on complication rescue.
• Cost of Major Surgery in the Sarcopenic Patient.
• The Relationship Between Nurse Staffing and Failure to Rescue: Where Does It Matter Most?
• Abdominal aortic calcification and surgical outcomes in patients with no known cardiovascular risk factors.
• The importance of improving the quality of emergency surgery for a regional quality collaborative.
• Morphometric Age and Surgical Risk.
• A Statewide, Community-Based Assessment of Alvimopan's Effect on Surgical Outcomes.
• Preoperative risk factors for postoperative Clostridium difficile infection in colectomy patients.
• Antibiotic Choice Is Independently Associated With Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Colectomy: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Procedure-specific venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: A paradigm from colectomy surgery.
• Identifying patients at high risk for venous thromboembolism requiring treatment after outpatient surgery.
• Productivity assessment of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in oncology in an academic medical center.
• Leadership at the Front Line: A Clinical Partnership Model on General Care Inpatient Units.
• Contribution of body mass index to postoperative outcome in minority patients.
• Local Anesthesia: A Strategy for Reducing Surgical Site Infections?
• The effect of increased hip flexion using stirrups on lower-extremity venous flow: a prospective observational study.
• Bowel preparation for colectomy and risk of Clostridium difficile infection.
• How a regional collaborative of hospitals and physicians in michigan cut costs and improved the quality of care.
• Prophylactic antibiotic practices for colectomy in Michigan.
• Oral antibiotics to prevent surgical site infections following colon surgery.
• The association of body mass index to postoperative outcomes in elderly vascular surgery patients: a reverse J-curve phenomenon.
• The impact of high body mass index on postoperative complications and resource utilization in minority patients.
• A statewide consortium of surgical care: a longitudinal investigation of vascular operative procedures at 16 hospitals.
• Failure to rescue measure: validation of community- and hospital-acquired complications.
• Accelerating the pace of surgical quality improvement: the power of hospital collaboration.
• A statewide assessment of surgical site infection following colectomy: the role of oral antibiotics.
• Body mass index and adverse perioperative outcomes following hepatic resection.
• Don't give up on bowel preps-yet.
• Physician wellness and patient safety.
• A comparison of in-hospital mortality risk conferred by high hospital occupancy, differences in nurse staffing levels, weekend admission, and seasonal influenza.
• A validation study of a retrospective venous thromboembolism risk scoring method.
• The Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative: a legacy of Shukri Khuri.
• Multihospital collaborations for surgical quality improvement.
• Medicare's new hospital payment rule: limitations and unintended consequences.
• Quality improvement is local.
• Development and validation of an acute kidney injury risk index for patients undergoing general surgery: results from a national data set.
• Preoperative and intraoperative predictors of cardiac adverse events after general, vascular, and urological surgery.
• Measurement of foot traffic in the operating room: implications for infection control.
• Informatics and the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: automated processes could replace manual record review.
• A better approach to medical malpractice claims? The University of Michigan experience.
• Risk factors for prolonged length of stay after urologic surgery: the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
• Surgical site infection prevention: the importance of operative duration and blood transfusion--results of the first American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Qua...
• Real money: complications and hospital costs in trauma patients.
• Exploratory analyses of the "failure to rescue" measure: evaluation through medical record review.
• Do the AHRQ patient safety indicators flag conditions that are present at the time of hospital admission?
• Incremental costs of post-liver transplantation complications.
• Biliary complications following liver transplantation in the model for end-stage liver disease era: effect of donor, recipient, and technical factors.
• How can the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program help or hinder the general surgeon?
• Is routine ureteral stenting cost-effective in renal transplantation?
• The Michigan surgical quality collaborative: will a statewide quality improvement initiative pay for itself?
• Detecting the blind spot: complications in the trauma registry and trauma quality improvement.
• Seasonal variation in surgical outcomes as measured by the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP).
• Patient safety rounds: description of an inexpensive but important strategy to improve the safety culture.
• Preoperative and intraoperative risk factors associated with 30-day morbidity following urological surgery: the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
• Comparing performance of Morbidity and Mortality Conference and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program for detection of complications after urologic surgery.
• Early pancreas transplant outcomes with histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate preservation: a multicenter study.
• Who pays for poor surgical quality? Building a business case for quality improvement.
• Evaluating individual surgeons based on total hospital costs: evidence for variation in both total costs and volatility of costs.
• Partnering with payers to improve surgical quality: the Michigan plan.
• Hospital costs associated with surgical complications: a report from the private-sector National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
• Clinical redesign using all patient refined diagnosis related groups.
• Billing and reimbursement for pediatric surgical services: a unique assessment of a complex process.
• Long-term follow-up of percutaneous transhepatic balloon cholangioplasty in the management of biliary strictures after liver transplantation.
• Vascular access outcomes using the transposed basilic vein arteriovenous fistula.
• Evaluation of pancreatic allograft dysfunction by laparoscopic biopsy.
• The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in non-veterans administration hospitals: initial demonstration of feasibility.
• Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the liver disseminated to the peritoneum treated with liver transplantation and interferon alpha-2B.
• Gender imbalance in living donor renal transplantation.

Schools

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• George Washington University School Of Medicine

• University Of Mi Hosps and Health Ctrs

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
• George Washington University School of Medicine

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