JACS Highlights May 2025

The following articles appear in the May 2025 issues of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. A complimentary online subscription to JACS is a benefit of ACS membership. See more articles on the JACS website.

Proceedings of the ACS Surgical Adhesions Improvement Project Summit

Dana Andersen, MD, David Wiseman, PhD, Deshka Foster, MD, PhD, and colleagues

The ACS Surgical Adhesions Improvement Project Summit was hosted in Washington, DC, in September 2024. A multidisciplinary group of international experts, including surgeons, researchers, regulatory professionals, industry stakeholders, and funding agencies, assembled to address the ongoing challenges of intraperitoneal surgical adhesive disease. The objective of the summit was to foster collaboration, enhance understanding, and develop standardized approaches to improve the prevention and management of surgical adhesions, ultimately aiming to reduce their burden on patients and the healthcare system. Read more.

Enhancing Accuracy of Operative Reports with Automated Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Surgical Video

Abhinav Khanna, MD, Tamir Wolf, MD, PhD, Igor Frank, MD, and colleagues

Surgical operative reports are tedious to create, inherently subjective, and may contain inaccuracies. The authors of this study explored automated creation of video-based artificial intelligence (AI) surgical operative reports in robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy. They found that operative reports written by AI had higher overall accuracy than those written by surgeons. Read more.

Impact of ACS Geriatric Surgery Verification Program in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Oncologic Operation at a Cancer Center

Mercy Jimenez, MD, Omid Salehi, MD, Ponnandai Somasundar, MD, FACS, and colleagues

The goal of this study was to determine the difference in valuation of clinical effort between academic and nonacademic surgeons across general surgery subspecialties. Despite generating higher work relative value units (wRVUs) based on total cash compensation per wRVU, most academic general surgery subspecialties are compensated less than their nonacademic counterparts. Read more.

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