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Patient-reported outcomes have become a critical part of improving surgical care because of their ability to capture patient experiences, such as quality of life and satisfaction, that can help inform treatment. However, for patients undergoing abdominal hernia repair — a common procedure performed on about 400,000 patients a year in the United States — a tool to effectively and practically measure those outcomes has not been widely accepted and implemented by clinics.

In a test of the method, published in Nature Communications, Sum-Share’s developers were able to detect more than 1,700 DNA-level variations that could be associated with five different cardiovascular conditions.

Medications to treat high blood pressure did not affect outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, found an international team led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System has named John J. Herman as chief executive officer of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health (LG Health), effective March 1, 2021.