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Zara R Cooper, M.D.

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This page shows the publications co-authored by Zara Cooper and Ali Salim.
Zara Cooper
Connection Strength
6.126
Ali Salim
  1. Association of Trauma Center Designation With Postdischarge Survival Among Older Adults With Injuries. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Mar 01; 5(3):e222448.
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    Score: 0.247
  2. The impact of delayed management of fall-related hip fracture management on health outcomes for African American older adults. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 06 01; 90(6):942-950.
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    Score: 0.235
  3. Impact of chronic illness on functional outcomes and quality of life among injured older adults. Injury. 2021 Sep; 52(9):2638-2644.
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    Score: 0.232
  4. Care Discontinuity in Emergency General Surgery: Does Hospital Quality Matter? J Am Coll Surg. 2020 06; 230(6):863-871.
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    Score: 0.215
  5. Natural Language Processing Accurately Measures Adherence to Best Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care in Trauma. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 02; 59(2):225-232.e2.
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    Score: 0.209
  6. Frailty Identification and Care Pathway: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Care for Older Trauma Patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2019 06; 228(6):852-859.e1.
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    Score: 0.202
  7. The impact of inpatient palliative care on end-of-life care among older trauma patients who die after hospital discharge. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2018 11; 85(5):992-998.
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    Score: 0.196
  8. Increased hospice enrollment and decreased neurosurgical interventions without changes in mortality for older Medicare patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Am J Surg. 2018 06; 215(6):1016-1019.
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    Score: 0.187
  9. End-of-Life Care in Older Patients After Serious or Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Low-Mortality Hospitals Compared With All Other Hospitals. JAMA Surg. 2018 01 01; 153(1):44-50.
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    Score: 0.185
  10. Do Transferred Patients Increase the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Centers? Am Surg. 2017 Nov 01; 83(11):1241-1245.
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    Score: 0.183
  11. Intraoperative cholangiography during cholecystectomy among hospitalized medicare beneficiaries with non-neoplastic biliary disease. Am J Surg. 2017 Oct; 214(4):682-686.
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    Score: 0.179
  12. Erratum to "Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury" [Am J Surg 211 (4) (2016) 744-749]. Am J Surg. 2018 07; 216(1):186-187.
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    Score: 0.177
  13. Hospital Factors Associated With Care Discontinuity Following Emergency General Surgery. JAMA Surg. 2017 03 01; 152(3):242-249.
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    Score: 0.175
  14. Utility of the "Surprise" Question in Predicting Survival among Older Patients with Acute Surgical Conditions. J Palliat Med. 2017 04; 20(4):420-423.
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    Score: 0.171
  15. How long should we fear? Long-term risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with traumatic brain injury. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 07; 81(1):71-8.
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    Score: 0.167
  16. Intensity of treatment, end-of-life care, and mortality for older patients with severe traumatic brain injury. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 06; 80(6):998-1004.
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    Score: 0.166
  17. Defining Rates and Risk Factors for Readmissions Following Emergency General Surgery. JAMA Surg. 2016 Apr; 151(4):330-6.
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    Score: 0.164
  18. Integrating Geriatric Consults into Routine Care of Older Trauma Patients: One-Year Experience of a Level I Trauma Center. J Am Coll Surg. 2016 06; 222(6):1029-35.
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    Score: 0.163
  19. Does Hospital Experience Rather than Volume Improve Outcomes in Geriatric Trauma Patients? J Am Coll Surg. 2016 07; 223(1):32-40.e1.
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    Score: 0.163
  20. Are appendectomy outcomes in level I trauma centers as good as we think? J Surg Res. 2016 05 15; 202(2):239-45.
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    Score: 0.162
  21. Explaining the excess morbidity of emergency general surgery: packed red blood cell and fresh frozen plasma transfusion practices are associated with major complications in nonmassively transfused patients. Am J Surg. 2016 Apr; 211(4):656-663.e4.
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    Score: 0.162
  22. Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury. Am J Surg. 2016 Apr; 211(4):744-749.e1.
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    Score: 0.162
  23. The truth about trauma readmissions. Am J Surg. 2016 Apr; 211(4):649-55.
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    Score: 0.161
  24. Whatever happens to trauma patients who leave against medical advice? Am J Surg. 2016 Apr; 211(4):677-83.
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    Score: 0.161
  25. The elderly patient with spinal injury: treat or transfer? J Surg Res. 2016 May 01; 202(1):58-65.
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    Score: 0.161
  26. How Many Midnights?: Admission Status for Elders With Small Bowel Obstruction. Ann Surg. 2015 Dec; 262(6):904-6.
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    Score: 0.160
  27. The effect of cirrhosis on the risk for failure of nonoperative management of blunt liver injuries. Surgery. 2015 Dec; 158(6):1676-85.
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    Score: 0.157
  28. Trauma systems are associated with increased level 3 trauma centers. J Surg Res. 2015 Oct; 198(2):489-93.
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    Score: 0.153
  29. The excess morbidity and mortality of emergency general surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Feb; 78(2):306-11.
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    Score: 0.151
  30. Defining Referral Regions for Inpatient Trauma Care: The Utility of a Novel Geographic Definition. J Surg Res. 2022 Mar 07; 275:115-128.
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    Score: 0.062
  31. Quantifying lives lost due to variability in emergency general surgery outcomes: Why we need a national emergency general surgery quality improvement program. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 04 01; 90(4):685-693.
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    Score: 0.058
  32. Wait expectations: The impact of delisting as an outcome from the kidney transplant waitlist. Clin Transplant. 2021 05; 35(5):e14250.
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    Score: 0.058
  33. Association of Frailty With Morbidity and Mortality in Emergency General Surgery by Procedural Risk Level. JAMA Surg. 2021 01 01; 156(1):68-74.
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    Score: 0.057
  34. National Study of Triage and Access to Trauma Centers for Older Adults. Ann Emerg Med. 2020 02; 75(2):125-135.
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    Score: 0.053
  35. Outcomes of a low-osmolar water-soluble contrast pathway in small bowel obstruction. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019 09; 87(3):630-635.
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    Score: 0.052
  36. Emergency general surgery procedures in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Am J Surg. 2019 11; 218(5):972-977.
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    Score: 0.050
  37. Sarcopenia as a tool for preoperative decision-making. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019 02; 86(2):377-379.
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    Score: 0.050
  38. Do outcomes in emergency general surgery vary for minority patients based on surgeons' racial/ethnic case mix? Am J Surg. 2019 07; 218(1):42-46.
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    Score: 0.050
  39. The impact of individual physicians on outcomes after trauma: is it the system or the surgeon? J Surg Res. 2018 09; 229:51-57.
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    Score: 0.047
  40. The "mortality ascent": Hourly risk of death for hemodynamically unstable trauma patients at Level II versus Level I trauma centers. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2018 01; 84(1):139-145.
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    Score: 0.046
  41. Sarcopenia increases risk of long-term mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2017 12; 83(6):1179-1186.
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    Score: 0.046
  42. Preoperative assessment of surgical risk: creation of a scoring tool to estimate 1-year mortality after emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly patient. Am J Surg. 2017 Apr; 213(4):771-777.e1.
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    Score: 0.042
  43. The obesity paradox in patients with severe soft tissue infections. Am J Surg. 2017 Sep; 214(3):385-389.
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    Score: 0.042
  44. Racial disparities in emergency general surgery: Do differences in outcomes persist among universally insured military patients? J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 May; 80(5):764-75; discussion 775-7.
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    Score: 0.041
  45. Never giving up: outcomes and presentation of emergency general surgery in geriatric octogenarian and nonagenarian patients. Am J Surg. 2016 Aug; 212(2):211-220.e3.
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    Score: 0.041
  46. Evaluation of the Perceived Association Between Resident Turnover and the Outcomes of Patients Who Undergo Emergency General Surgery: Questioning the July Phenomenon. JAMA Surg. 2016 Mar; 151(3):217-24.
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    Score: 0.041
  47. Comparing Readmissions and Infectious Complications of Blunt Splenic Injuries Using a Statewide Database. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2016 Apr; 17(2):191-7.
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    Score: 0.041
  48. Mortality after emergency surgery continues to rise after discharge in the elderly: Predictors of 1-year mortality. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Sep; 79(3):349-58.
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    Score: 0.039
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