ASO Author Reflections: County-Level Racial Diversity is Associated with Textbook Outcomes for Pancreatic Surgery

Adrian Diaz^{1

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3}, Timothy M Pawlik⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
² IHPI Clinician Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. tim.pawlik@osumc.edu.

Comment

Adrian Diaz et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;28(13):8085-8086.

doi: 10.1245/s10434-021-10320-7. Epub 2021 Jun 18.

Adrian Diaz^{1

2

3}, Timothy M Pawlik⁴

¹ Department of Surgery, The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
² IHPI Clinician Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. tim.pawlik@osumc.edu.

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1. Diaz A, Dalmacy D, Herbert C, Mirdad RS, Hyer JM, Pawlik TM. Association of county-level racial diversity and likelihood of a textbook outcomes following pancreas surgery. Ann Surg Oncol. Published online; 2021. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-021-10316-3 . - DOI