Professor, Surgery, University of Texas Medical School, Houston
General Surgery
Dr. Lillian S. Kao, MD
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Lillian is an expert in the field of General Surgery. She went to medical school at University of Michigan Medical School. She received 2 awards: "Social Media Editor" and "Fellow (FACS)". Lillian S. Kao, MD is also published. She has 82 publications published. The lastest publication: "Barriers to Participation in Preoperative Risk-Reduction Programs Prior to Ventral Hernia Repair: An Assessment of Underserved Patients at a Safety-Net Hospital.' She is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Facilitators and barriers of implementing enhanced recovery in colorectal surgery at a safety net hospital: A provider and patient perspective.
- Barriers to Participation in Preoperative Risk-Reduction Programs Prior to Ventral Hernia Repair: An Assessment of Underserved Patients at a Safety-Net Hospital.
- Chlorhexidine Gluconate, 4%, Showers and Surgical Site Infection Reduction.
- Preoperative Glycosylated Hemoglobin and Postoperative Glucose Together Predict Major Complications after Abdominal Surgery.
- Trial & Guidelines.
- Topic: Recent Innovations in Hernia Surgery.
- Development and Validation of a Risk Stratification Score for Ventral Incisional Hernia after Abdominal Surgery: Hernia Expectation Rates in Intra-Abdominal Surgery (T...
- External validation of the ventral hernia risk score for prediction of surgical site infections.
- Primary fascial closure with laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: systematic review.
- Primary skin closure after damage control laparotomy.
- Is nighttime the right time? Risk of complications after laparoscopic cholecystectomy at night.
- Laparoscopic repair reduces incidence of surgical site infections for all ventral hernias.
- Abdominal reoperation and mesh explantation following open ventral hernia repair with mesh.
- Impact of a 24-hour discharge pathway on outcomes of pediatric appendectomy.
- Multifaceted interventions improve adherence to the surgical checklist.
- So why would my paper be rejected?
- Regional disparities affect treatment and survival of patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma-A Texas Cancer Registry analysis.
- Survival with Near Total Small Intestinal Loss Associated with Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis: A Report of Prothrombin G20210A Mutation.
- Systematic review of educational interventions for ostomates.
- Real world versus ivory tower: the challenge for academic surgery.
- Reliability of Risk-Adjusted Outcomes for Profiling Hospital Surgical Quality.
- Comparison of Outcomes of Synthetic Mesh vs Suture Repair of Elective Primary Ventral Herniorrhaphy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
- Use of Twitter to document the 2013 Academic Surgical Congress.
- Review of stoma site and midline incisional hernias after stoma reversal.
- Readmission following open ventral hernia repair: incidence, indications, and predictors.
- Rescuing Failures: Can Large Data Sets Provide the Answer?
- Interaction between age and race alters predicted survival in colorectal cancer.
- Impact of Ileostomy-Related Complications on the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Rectal Cancer.
- Glycemic control and prevention of surgical site infection.
- Quality Check of a Quality Measure: Surgical Wound Classification Discrepancies Impact Risk-Stratified Surgical Site Infection Rates in Pediatric Appendicitis.
- What is the Quality of Reporting of Studies of Interventions to Increase Compliance with Antibiotic Prophylaxis?
- Outcomes of Laparoscopic vs Open Repair of Primary Ventral Hernias.
- Differentiation of ileostomy from colostomy procedures: Assessing the accuracy of current procedural terminology codes and the utility of natural language processing.
- Beyond surgical care improvement program compliance: antibiotic prophylaxis implementation gaps.
- Relationship between documentation status and survival for medically underserved Hispanic breast cancer patients.
- The Effect of Age on Race-Related Breast Cancer Survival Disparities.
- Should perioperative supplemental oxygen be routinely recommended for surgery patients? A bayesian meta-analysis.
- Commentary: Empiric antibiotics pending bronchoalveolar lavage data in patients without pneumonia significantly alters the flora but not the resistance profile if a su...
- Revisiting the effectiveness of interventions to decrease surgical site infections in colorectal surgery: A Bayesian perspective.
- Implementing a surgical checklist: More than checking a box.
- Pilot prognostic model of extremely poor survival among high-risk hepatocellular carcinoma patients.
- A Multi-institutional Study of Pancreatic Cancer in Harris County, Texas: Race Predicts Treatment and Survival.
- Defining risk for infectious complications on extracorporeal life support.
- Cost-utility analysis of levetiracetam and phenytoin for posttraumatic seizure prophylaxis.
- Health Services Research Resources for Surgeons.
- Reliability of Superficial Surgical Site Infections as a Hospital Quality Measure.
- Local variations in the epidemiology, microbiology, and outcome of necrotizing soft-tissue infections: a multicenter study.
- Antimicrobial prophylaxis and infection surveillance in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients: a multi-institutional survey of practice patterns.
- The epidemiology of sepsis in general surgery patients.
- Predicting the Risk of Anastomotic Leakage in Left-Sided Colorectal Surgery Using a Colon Leakage Score.
- Compliance with guidelines to prevent surgical site infections: As simple as 1-2-3?
- A tale of 2 hospitals: a staggered cohort study of targeted interventions to improve compliance with antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines.
- Predicting death in necrotizing soft tissue infections: a clinical score.
- Surgical education in the internet era.
- Improving quality improvement: a methodologic framework for evaluating effectiveness of surgical quality improvement.
- Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone in critically injured trauma patients.
- Controversies in appendicitis.
- Review: hemoglobin-based blood substitutes increase mortality and myocardial infarction in surgical, trauma, and stroke settings.
- Training future surgical scientists: realities and recommendations.
- Navigating towards improved surgical safety using aviation-based strategies.
- Clinical research methodology I: introduction to randomized trials.
- Analysis of variance: is there a difference in means and what does it mean?
- Preclinical predictors of surgery NBME exam performance.
- Early predictors of prolonged mechanical ventilation in major torso trauma patients who require resuscitation.
- A multidisciplinary clinical pathway decreases rib fracture-associated infectious morbidity and mortality in high-risk trauma patients.
- The impact of diabetes on outcome in traumatically injured patients: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
- Effect of NOS inhibition on rat gastric matrix metalloproteinase production during endotoxemia.
- Prophylactic cholecystectomy in transplant patients: a decision analysis.
- Perceptions and predictors of surgeon satisfaction: a survey of spouses of academic surgeons.
- Gender differences among spouses of surgeons.
- The impact of diabetes in patients with necrotizing soft tissue infections.
- Diverticulitis in the younger patient.
- Predictors of morbidity after traumatic pancreatic injury.
- Should cholecystectomy be performed for asymptomatic cholelithiasis in transplant patients?
- Trials and tribulations: current challenges in conducting clinical trials.
- Peri-operative glycaemic control regimens for preventing surgical site infections in adults.
- Hyperglycemia and morbidity and mortality in extremely low birth weight infants.
- Foreign material erosion after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: findings and treatment.
- Laparoscopic assisted percutaneous drainage of infected pancreatic necrosis.
- A technique for laparoscopic-assisted percutaneous drainage of infected pancreatic necrosis and pancreatic abscess.
- Modification of a latex glove for the safe endoscopic removal of a sharp gastric foreign body.
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Social Media Editor
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Texas Health Science Center -
University of Washington -
University of Michigan Medical School
Hospital
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Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1932131646 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KAO |
| First Name Of The Provider | LILLIAN |
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