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Moshe Schein
Researcher at New York Methodist Hospital
Publications - 22
Citations - 625
Moshe Schein is an academic researcher from New York Methodist Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Perforation (oil well) & Antibiotic prophylaxis. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 22 publications receiving 613 citations.
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Redundant surgical publications: Tip of the iceberg?
Moshe Schein,Ramesh Paladugu +1 more
TL;DR: Almost 1 in every 6 original articles published in leading surgical journals represents some form of redundancy; the phenomenon is widespread, and it cuts across the entire spectrum of surgeons in the United States and abroad.
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Antibiotic administration in patients undergoing common surgical procedures in a community teaching hospital: the chaos continues.
TL;DR: Antibiotic usage in current surgical practice is often inappropriate, excessive, and chaotic and many surgeons are not familiar with the spectrum of antimicrobials and often do not distinguish between prophylactic and therapeutic administration.
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Let us shorten antibiotic prophylaxis and therapy in surgery
Dietmar H. Wittmann,Moshe Schein +1 more
TL;DR: The concept for shortening courses of antibiotic administration is supported by a forum of experts, which favored a trend away from the use of therapeutic courses of fixed duration, by tailoring the duration of administration to the intraoperative findings to shorten treatment courses.
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What American surgeons read: a survey of a thousand Fellows of the American College of Surgeons
TL;DR: To assess the sources of information and reading habits of American surgeons and to compare the "popularity" of journals with their impact factor, a questionnaire was mailed to 1000 American surgeons.
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Gangrenous and perforated appendicitis: a meta-analytic study of 2532 patients indicates that the incision should be closed primarily.
TL;DR: PC of the skin and subcutaneous tissue after appendectomy for gangrenous or perforated appendicitis, combined with the use of antibiotic therapy in the perioperative period, is not associated with an increased risk of incision infection when compared with DC.