Selected Publications
Books:
Makary MA. Minimally-Invasive Vein and Artery Harvesting, 2000.
Makary MA. Aortic Stent-Grafts: Clinical and Financial Implications, 2001.
Brokaw M, Makary MA. Coronary Brachytherapy, 2001.
Makary MA. General Surgery Review, 2004.
Makary MA. General Surgery Illustrated, 2007.
Selected Articles:
Ibrahim A, Makary MA. Robotic-assisted surgery and health care costs. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2010; 363(22):2175-6.
Makary MA, Ibrahim A. Surgical care improvement project adherence and postoperative infections. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 2010;304(15):1670-1.
Ibrahim A, Ananthaiah V, Makary MA. What does healthcare reform means for surgical oncology? Annals of Surgical Oncology; 2011;18(1):6-7.
Makary MA, Wick E, Freischlag JA. Physician performance evaluation (PPE), OPPE, and FPPE: complying with the alphabet soup of credentialing. Archives of Surgery. 2011.
Makary MA. The hazard of more reporting in quality measurement: comment on wrong-site and wrong-patient procedures in the universal protocol era. Archives of Surgery, 2010;145(10):978-84.
Makary MA, Al-Atar A, Holtzmueller C, Sexton JB, Syin D, Gilson MM, Sulkowski MS, Pronovost PJ. Needlestick injuries among surgeons in training. New England Journal of Medicine. 2007;356(26):2693-9.
Wick E, Shore A, Hirose K, Clark J, Makary MA. Pay-for-Performance: A Disparity in Surgical Site Infection Risk and Cost for Obese Patients May Incentivize Surgeons Not to Operate on Obese Patients. Archives of Surgery, 2011.
Jin LX, Ibrahim AA, Newman NA, Makarov DV, Pronovost PJ, Makary MA. Robotic Surgery Claims on United States Hospital Websites. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 2011.
Makary MA, Segev DL, Pronovost PJ, Syin D, Bandeen-Roche K, Patel P, Takenaga R, Devgan L, Holzmueller CG, Tian J, Fried LP. Frailty as a predictor of surgical outcomes in older patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2010;210(6):901-8.
Kwakye G, Pronovost PJ, Makary MA. A call to go green in healthcare by reprocessing medical equipment. Academic Medicine, 2010,85(3):398-400.
Makary MA. Standardizing pancreas research. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2010;18(2):309-10.
Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton JB, Syin D, Goodrich E, Hartmann E, Rowen L, Behrens DC, Marohn M, Pronovost PJ. Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007;204(2):236-43.
Makary MA, Epstein J, Pronovost PJ, Millman EA, Hartmann EC, Freischlag JA. Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality in surgical care. Surgery. 2007;141(4):450-5.
Michaels RK, Makary MA, Dahab Y, Frassica FJ, Heitmiller E, Rowen LC, Crotreau R, Brem H, Pronovost PJ. Achieving the National Quality Forum’s “Never Events”: prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgical procedures. Annals of Surgery. 2007;245(4):526-32.
Syin D, Woreta T, Chang DC, Cameron JL, Pronovost PJ, Makary MA. Publication bias in surgery: implications for informed consent. Journal of Surgical Research, 2007;143(1):88-93.
Nundy S, Mukherjee A, Sexton JB, Pronovost PJ, Knight A, Rowen LC, Duncan M, Syin D, Makary MA. Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays. Archives of Surgery, 2008;143(11):1068-72.
Makary MA, Holzmueller CG, Thompson D, Rowen L, Heitmiller ES, Maley WR, Black JH, Stegner K, Freischlag JA, Ulatowsky JA, Pronovost PJ. Operating room briefings: working on the same page. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2006;32(6):351-55.
Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, Holtzmueller CG, Millman EA, Rowen L, Pronovost PJ. Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2006;202(5):746-52.
Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, Millman EA, Pryor D, Holzmueller C, Pronovost PJ. Patient safety in surgery. Annals of Surgery. 2006;243(5);628-35; discussion 632-5.
Makary MA, Warshaw AL, Centeno BA, Willett CG, Rattner DW, Fernández -del Castillo C. Implications of peritoneal cytology for pancreatic cancer management. Archives of Surgery. 1998;133(4):361-365.
Makary MA. Reported incidence of injuries caused by street glass among urban children in Philadelphia. Injury Prevention. 1998;4(2):148-9.
Bates DW, Makary MA, Teich JM, Pedraza L, Ma’luf NM, Burstin H, Brennan TA. Asking residents about adverse events: how accurate are they? The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 1998;24(4):197-202.*
Makary MA, Kawachi I. The international tobacco strategy. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 1998;280(13):1194-95.
Fernández-del Castillo C, Rattner DW, Makary MA, Mostafavi A, McGrath D, Warshaw AL Debridement and closed packing for the treatment of necrotizing pancreatitis. Annals of Surgery. 1998;228(5):676-84.
Guigliano RP, Lloyd-Jones DM, Carmargo CA Jr, Makary MA, O’Donnell CJ. Association of unstable angina guideline care with improved survival. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2000;160(12):1775-80.
Ad N, Suyderhoud JP, Kim YD, Makary MA, DeGroot KW, Lue HC, Pirovic EA, Duvall WZ, Cox JL. Benefits of prophylactic continuous infusion of furosemide after the maze procedure for atrial fibrillation. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2002;123(2):232-6
Makary MA, Kiernan PD, Sheridan MJ, Tonneson G, Hetrick V, Vaughan B, Graling P, Elster E,. Multimodality treatment of esophageal cancer: the role of surgery and neoadjuvant therapy. American Surgeon. 2003;69(8):693-700; discussion 700-2.
Makary MA, Duncan MD, Harmon JW, Freeswick PD, Bender JS, Bohlman M, Magnuson TH. The role of magnetic resonance cholangiograpy in the management of gallstone pancreatitis. Annals of Surgery. 2005;241(1):119-24.
Makary MA, Fishman EK, Cameron JL. Resection of the celiac axis for invasive pancreatic cancer. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2005;9(4):503-507.
Weiss ES, Makary MA, Wang T, Syin D, Pronovost PJ, Chang D, Cornwell EE III. Prevalence of blood-born pathogens in an urban, university-based general surgical practice, Annals of Surgery. 2005;241(5):803-809; discussion 807-9.
Needham DM, Sinopoli DJ, Thompson DA, Holzmeuller CG, Dorman T, Lubomski LH, Wu AW, Morlock LL, Makary MA, Pronovost PJ. System factors analysis of “line, tube, and drain” incidents in the intensive care unit. Critical Care Medicine. 2005;33(8):1701-7.
Thompson DA, Makary MA, Dorman T, Pronovost PJ. Clinical and economic outcomes of hospital acquired pneumonia in intra-abdominal surgery patients. Annals of Surgery. 2006;243(4):547-552.
Pronovost, PJ, Holzmueller CG, Martinez E, Cafeo CL, Hunt D, Dickson C, Awad M, Makary MA. A practical tool to investigate defects in patient care. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2006;32:102-8.
Makary MA, Winter JM, Cameron JL, Campbell KA, Chang D, Cunningham SC, Riall TS, Yeo C.J. Outcomes of pancreaticoduodenectomy in the very elderly. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 2006;10(3):347-56.
Makary MA, Pronovost PJ, Weiss ES, Millman EA, Chang D, Baker SP, Cornwell EE III, Syin D, Freischlag JA. Sharpless surgery: a prospective study of the feasibility of performing operations using non-sharp techniques in an urban, university-based surgical practice. World Journal of Surgery. 2006;30(7):1224-9.
Williams CG, Haut ER, Ouyang H, Riall TS, Makary M, Efron DT, Cornwell III EE. Video-assisted thoracic surgery removal of foreign bodies after penetrating chest trauma. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2006;202(5):848-52.
Walrath JM, Muganlinskaya N, Shepard M, Awad M, Reuland C, Makary MA, Kravet S. Interdisciplinary medical, nursing, and administrator education in practice: the Johns Hopkins Medicine experience. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(8):744-8.
Makary MA, Holzmueller CG, Sexton JB, Thompson DA, Martinez EA, Freischlag JA, Ulatowski JA, Heitmiller ES, Rowen L, Pronovost PJ. Operating room debriefings. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2006;32(7):407-10.
Pronovost PJ, Berenholtz SM, Goeschel CA, Needham DM, Sexton JB, Thompson DA, Lubomski LH, Marsteller JA, Makary MA, Hunt E. Creating high reliability in health care organizations. Health Services Research. 2006;41(4):1599-617.
Sexton JB, Makary MA, Tersigni AR, Pryor D, Hendrich A, Thomas EJ, Holzmueller CG, Knight AP, Wu Y, Pronovost PJ. Teamwork culture in the operating room:front-line perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel. Anesthesiology. 2006;105(5):877-84.*
Christmas C, Makary MA, Burton JR. Medical considerations in elderly surgical patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2006;203(5):746-51.
Makary MA, Elariny H. Laparoscopic transduodenal sphincteroplasty. Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques. 2006;16(6):629-32.
Wiess E, Cornwell EE III, Wang T, Syin D, Millman EA, Pronovost PJ, Chang D, Makary MA. Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis testing and prevalence among surgical patients in an urban university hospital. American Journal of Surgery. 2007;193(1):55-60.
Syin D, Magnuson T, Flum D, Steele K, Griffith J, Nicholson WK, Uddin S, Millman A, Schweitzer M, Pawlik TM, Chang DC, Pronovost PJ, Makary MA. Pregnancy outcomes after bariatric surgery. Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care. 2007;2:113-7.
Sinopoli DJ, Needham DM, Thompson DA, Holzmueller CG, Dorman T, Lubomski LH, Wu AW, Morlock LL, Makary MA, Pronovost PJ. Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study. Journal of Critical Care. 2007;22(3):177-83.
Brooke B, Perler BA, Dominici F, Makary MA, Pronovost PJ. Reduction of in-hospital mortality among California hospitals meeting Leapfrog evidence-based standards for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2008;47(6):1155-6.
Johnson PT, Chen JK, Eng J, Makary MA, Fishman EK. A comparison of world wide web resources for identifying medical information. Academic Radiology 2008;15(9):1165-72.
Yermilov I, Chow W, Devgan L, Makary MA, Ko CY. What is the quality of surgery-related information on the internet? Lessons learned from a standardized evaluation of 10 common operations. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2008,207(4):580-6.
Yermilov I, Chow W, Devgan L, Makary M, Ko CY. How to measure the quality of surgery-related web sites. American Surgeon. 2008;74(10):997-1000.
Marsteller JA, Holzmueller CG, Makary M, Sexton JB, Thompson DA, Lubomski LH, Pronovost PJ. Developing process-support tools for patient safety: finding the balance between validity and feasibility. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2008;34(10):604-7.*
Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Breizat AH, Dellinger EP, Herbosa T, Joseph S, Kibatala PL, Lapitan MC, Merry AF, Moorthy K, Reznick RK, Taylor B, Gawande AA; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009;360(5):491-9.*
Matlaga BR, Shore AD, Magnuson T, Clarke JM, Johns R, Makary MA. Effect of gastric bypass surgery on kidney stone disease. Journal of Urology; 2009:181(6):2573-7.
Hayanga AJ, Kaiser HE, Sinha R, Berenholtz SM, Makary MA, Chang D. Residential segregation and access to surgical care by minority populations in US counties. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2009;208(6):1017-22.*
Brooke B, Dominici F, Makary MA, Pronovost PJ. Use of beta-blockers during aortic aneurysm repair: bridging the gap between evidence and effective practice. Health Affairs. 2009;28(4):1199-209.*
Semins MJ, Matlaga BR, Shore AD, Steele K, Magnuson T, Johns R, Makary MA. The effect of gastric banding on kidney stone disease. Urology, 2009;74(4):746-9.
Segal JB, Clark JM, Shore AD, Dominici F, Magnuson T, Richards TM, Weiner JP, Bass EB, Wu AW, Makary MA. Prompt reduction in use of medications for comorbid conditions after bariatric surgery. Obesity Surgery. 2009;19(12):1646-56.
Weiser TG, Makary MA, Haynes AB, Dziekan G, Berry WR, Gawande AA and the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Measurement and Study Groups. Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance. The Lancet. 2009;374(9695):1113-7.*
Sharma GK, Gilson MM, Nathan H, Makary MA. Needlestick injuries among medical students. Academic Medicine. 2009;84(12):1815-21.*
Brooke BS, Meguid RA, Makary MA, Perler BA, Pronovost PJ, Pawlik TM. Improving surgical outcomes through adoption of evidence-based process measures: Intervention specific or associated with overall hospital quality? Surgery. 2010;147(4):481-90.*
Seimens MJ, Shore AD, Makary MA, Magnuson T, Johns R, Matlaga BR. The association between increasing body mass index and kidney stone disease. Journal of Urology 2010;183(2);571-5.
Makary MA, Clark J, Shore A, Richards T, Bass E, Wu A, Segal JB. Medication utilization and annual healthcare costs after bariatric surgery in patients with type ii diabetes mellitus. Archives of Surgery, August, 2010;145(8):726-31.
Newman NA, Lennon AM, Edil BH, Gilson MM, Giday SA, Canto MI, Makary MA. Preoperative endoscopic tattooing of pancreas tumors decreases operative time for laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy. Surgery, 2010;148(2):371-7.
Burke A, Bennett W, Jamshidi R, Gilson M, Clarke J, Segal J, Bass E, Wu A, Makary MA. Reduced incidence of gestational diabetes with bariatric surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2010;211(2):169-75.
Horowitz DP, Hsu CC, Wang J, Makary MA, Winter JM, Robinson R, Schulick RD, Cameron JL, Pawlik TM, Herman JM. Adjuvant chemoradiation therapy after pancreaticoduodenectomy in elderly patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2010;epub ahead of print: July 17.
Weiser TG, Haynes AB, Dziekan G, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Gawande AA; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Investigators and Study Group. Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. Annals of Surgery. 2010;251(5):976-80.*
Bennett WL, Gilson MM, Jamshidi R, Burke AE, Segal JB, Steele KE, Makary MA, Clark JM. Impact of bariatric surgery on hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: A retrospective analysis of insurance claims data. British Medical Journal. 2010;340:c1662.
Scudiere JR, Shi C, Hruban RH, Herman JM, Fishman EK, Schulick RD, Wolfgang CL, Makary MA, Thronton K, Montgomery E, Horton KM. Sclerosing mesenteritis involving the pancreas: a mimicker of pancreatic cancer. American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2010;34(4):447-53.
Lenon AM, Newman N, Makary MA, Edil BH, Shin EJ, Khashab MA, Hruban RH, Wolfgang CL, Shulick RD, Giday S, Canto MI, EUS-guided tattooing before laparoscopic distal pancreatic resection (with video). Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2010;72(5):1089-94.
Kwakye G, Brat G, Makary MA. Green surgical practices for healthcare. Archives of Surgery, 2011;146(2):1-6.*
Khashab MA, Yong E, Lennon AM, Shin EJ, Amateau S, Shin EJ, Hruban RH, Olino K, Giday, S, Fishman EK, Wolfgang CL, Edil BH, Makary MA, Canto MI. EUS is still superior to multidetector computerized tomography for detection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2010, Nov. 8.
Millman A, Wu A, Makary MA, Pronovost PJ. Patient assisted incident reporting (PAIR): including the patient in patient safety. Journal of Patient Safety, 2011.
Khashab M, Canto MI, Singh VK, Hruban R, Makary MA, Giday S. Endosonographic and elastographic features of a rare epidermoid cyst of an intrapancreatic accessory spleen. Endoscopy. 2011.
Rodriguez A, Canto M, Makary MA. Endoscopic localization and tattooing of a proinsulinoma for minimally-invasive resection. Pancreas, 2011.
Hirose K, Shore A, Wick E, Weiner JP, Makary MA. Pay-for-obesity? pay-for-performance metrics neglect increased complication rates and cost for obese patients. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2011;in press.
Peng PD, vanVledder MG, Tsai S, deJong MC, Makary MA, Ng J, Edil BH, Wolfgang CL, Schulick RD, Choti MA, Kamel I, Pawlick TM. Sarcopenia negatively impacts short-term outcomes in patients undergoing hepatic resection for colorectal liver metastasis. Journal of Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery, 2011;in press.
Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, Lipsitz SR, Breizat AH, Dellinger EP, Dziekan G, Herbosa T, Kibatala PL, Lapitan MC, Merry AF, Reznick RK, Taylor B, Vats A, Gawande AA; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Investigators and Study Group. Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 2011;in press.*
Hayanga AJ, Makary MA, Eckhauser FE. Review of adjuvant radiation and chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. American Journal of Oncology Review, 2004;3:530-534.
Makary MA, Messersmith WA, Eckhauser FE. Review of combination gemcitabine and capecitabine in patients with advanced biliary cancer. American Journal of Oncology Review, 2005;4:640-641.
Steele K, Makary MA, Eckhauser FE. Review of postoperative surveillance in patients with colorectal cancer who have undergone curative resection. American Journal of Oncology Review, 2006,5:368-369.
Devgan L, Makary MA, Eckhauser FE. Review of neoadjuvant combined-modality chemoradiation for distal rectal cancer. American Journal of Oncology Review, 2006.
Syin D, Makary MA, Eckhauser FE. Review of hepatic artery infusion therapy for metastatic colon cancer. American Journal of Oncology Review, 2006.
Makary MA, Andersen DK. New techniques in the treatment of chronic pancreatitis. Contemporary Surgery, 2007;63(4):172-6.
Makary MA. Making an informed decision about hospitals. Johns Hopkins Medical Letter Health After 50. 2008;20(3):6.
Mehtsun W, Makary MA. Patient safety in surgery. Selected Readings in Surgery. 2011.
Makary MA. Implementing 1-dose antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of surgical site infection. Archives of Surgery, 2006;141:1114.
Makary MA. Medication errors in the outpatient setting. Archives of Surgery, 2006.
Pronovost PJ, Makary MA, Rowen L. Miracle on ice: improving performance of the surgical team, Archives of Surgery, 2007.
Makary MA. Low-volume centers of excellence. General Surgery News on-line, Jan. 18, 2007.
Makary MA. What’s the data for patient safety? General Surgery News on-line, Feb. 3, 2007.
Makary MA. What does informed consent truly require? General Surgery News on-line, Feb. 18, 2007.
Makary MA. Development of an online morbidity, mortality, and near-miss reporting system to identify patterns of adverse events in surgical patients-invited critique. Archives of Surgery, 2009;144(4):311.
Makary MA. Can aviation-based team training elicit sustainable behavioral change? Archives of Surgery, 2009.
Makary MA. Laparoscopic whipple. My Cancer Advisor. September 27, 2010.
Makary MA. The day before surgery. My Cancer Advisor. December 4, 2010.
Makary MA. The abc’s of clinical trials. My Cancer Advisor. January 15, 2011.
Makary MA. Laparoscopic pancreas resection and the robot. Archives of Surgery, 2011, in press.
Makary MA. Multidisciplinary teams. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2011;in press.
Makary MA, Magnuson T. The role of magnetic resonance cholangiography, Annals of Surgery, 2006;244:159.
Makary MA, Cameron JL, Fishman EK. Resection of the celiac axis for invasive pancreatic cancer, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2006.
Nathan H, Makary MA. Needlestick injuries among medical students. Academic Medicine, 2010.
Ibrahim A, Makary MA. An ethical imperative to use reprocessed medical equipment. Academic Medicine, 2010;85:1397.
