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William S. Richardson
Researcher at Ochsner Medical Center
Publications - 60
Citations - 3375
William S. Richardson is an academic researcher from Ochsner Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Abdominal surgery & Laparoscopic surgery. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2952 citations. Previous affiliations of William S. Richardson include Emory University Hospital.
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Guidelines for surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease
Dimitrios Stefanidis,William W. Hope,Geoffrey P. Kohn,Patrick R. Reardon,William S. Richardson,Robert D. Fanelli +5 more
TL;DR: GERD was defined according to the Montreal Consensus as “a condition which develops when the reflux of stomach contents causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications” and was considered “troublesome” if they adversely affected an individual’s well-being.
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Guidelines for the management of hiatal hernia
Geoffrey P. Kohn,Raymond R. Price,Raymond R. Price,Steven R. DeMeester,Jörg Zehetner,Oliver J. Muensterer,Ziad T. Awad,Sumeet K. Mittal,William S. Richardson,Dimitrios Stefanidis,Robert D. Fanelli +10 more
TL;DR: The guidelines for the management of hiatal hernia are a series of systematically developed statements to assist physicians’ and patients’ decisions about the appropriate use of laparoscopic surgery for hiatAL hernia.
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Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and use of laparoscopy for surgical problems during pregnancy.
TL;DR: Both the quality of the evidence and the strength of the recommendation for each of the guidelines below were assessed according to the GRADE system (see Table 1).
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SAGES guidelines for the clinical application of laparoscopic biliary tract surgery
TL;DR: This document updates and replaces the previous guideline on laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and the current recommendations are graded and linked to the evidence utilizing the definitions in Appendices 1 and 2.
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SAGES guidelines for the surgical treatment of esophageal achalasia.
Dimitrios Stefanidis,William S. Richardson,Timothy M. Farrell,Geoffrey P. Kohn,Vedra Augenstein,Robert D. Fanelli +5 more
TL;DR: The statements included in this guideline are the product of a systematic review of published work on the topic, and the recommendations are explicitly linked to the supporting evidence.