Olubode Olufajo, MD
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Surgery
School of Medicine

Publications (66)

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SpleenWounds, GunshotGender-Based ViolenceHospitals, High-VolumeSchoolsTrauma CentersPeptic UlcerEmergenciesPostoperative ComplicationsSmoke-Free PolicyHomicideDigestive System Surgical ProceduresWounds and InjuriesHospitals, Low-VolumePatient Readmission

• A Randomized Crossover Trial Evaluating the Impact of Cultural Dexterity Training on Surgical Residents' Knowledge, Cross-Cultural Care, Skills, and Beliefs: The Provider Awareness and Cultural dexterity Training for Surgeons (PACTS) Trial.
  Annals of surgery 2024 Smink DS, Ortega G, Dacier BM, Petrusa ER, Chen YJ, Shaikh NQ, Allar BG, Chun MBJ, Green AR, Caldwell KE, Atkinson RB, Reidy E, Olufajo OA, Britt LD, Brittain MA, Zárate Rodriguez J, Swoboda SM, …
• The Relationship Between Peripheral Arterial Disease Severity and Socioeconomic Status.
  Annals of vascular surgery 2023 Hughes K, Olufajo OA, White K, Roby DH, Fryer CS, Wright JL, Sehgal NJ
• The Role of Body Mass Index and Hypoalbuminemia on Postoperative Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty.
  Journal of surgical orthopaedic advances 2023 Gaskin A, Willacy R, Burgess R, Caldwell K, Olufajo OA, McKenzie S
• The influence of socioeconomic status on outcomes of lower extremity arterial reconstruction.
  Journal of vascular surgery 2021 Hughes K, Olufajo OA, White K, Roby DH, Fryer CS, Wright JL, Sehgal NJ
• Disfiguring Firearm Injuries in Children in the United States.
  The American surgeon 2021 Zeineddin S, Zeineddin A, Jain A, Olufajo OA, Koolaee S, Cornwell EE, Williams M

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• Patterns and Trends of Gun Violence Against Women in the United States.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Olufajo OA, Williams M, Ahuja G, Okereke NK, Zeineddin A, Hughes K, Cooper Z, Cornwell EE
• The Potential Impact of Plastic Surgery Expertise on Body Contouring Procedure Outcomes.
  Aesthetic surgery journal 2021 Bezzini DR, Washington GN, Abiodun O, Olufajo OA, Jones I, Butts DM, Ortega G, Paul H
• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Among Older Adults: Patterns, Outcomes, and Trends.
  The Journal of surgical research 2020 Olufajo OA, Wilson A, Zeineddin A, Williams M, Aziz S
• Risk Factors Associated With Adverse Outcomes After Ventral Hernia Repair With Component Separation.
  The Journal of surgical research 2020 Ferguson DH, Smith CG, Olufajo OA, Zeineddin A, Williams M
• Gunshot Injuries in American Trauma Centers: Analysis of the Lethality of Multiple Gunshot Wounds.
  The American surgeon 2020 Zeineddin A, Williams M, Nonez H, Nizam W, Olufajo OA, Ortega G, Haider A, Cornwell EE
• Response regarding: Trends in Firearm Injuries Among Children and Teenagers in the United States.
  The Journal of surgical research 2020 Williams M, Olufajo OA, Cornwell EE
• Trends in the Surgical Management and Outcomes of Complicated Peptic Ulcer Disease.
  The American surgeon 2020 Olufajo OA, Wilson A, Yehayes B, Zeineddin A, Cornwell EE, Williams M
• Outcomes after Cholecystectomy in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: Does Acuity of Presentation Play a Role?
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020 Ramdath A, Zeineddin A, Nizam W, Kearse L, Olufajo OA, Williams M
• Readmission for infection after blunt splenic injury: A national comparison of management techniques.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2020 Cioci AC, Parreco JP, Lindenmaier LB, Olufajo OA, Namias N, Askari R, DeRosa L, Rattan R
• A Rare De Novo Myoepithelial Carcinoma Ex Pleomorphic Adenoma in a Young Woman.
  Case reports in otolaryngology 2020 Ahuja G, Taghipour DJ, Olufajo OA, Davis BC, Shokrani B, Bond WR
• The Role of Body Mass Index in Perioperative Complications Among Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty.
  Journal of surgical orthopaedic advances 2020 Willacy RA, Olufajo OA, Esdaille CJ, Raja HM, Wilson RH
• Assessment of the "Weekend Effect" in Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma.
  Annals of vascular surgery 2019 Jundoria AK, Grant B, Olufajo OA, De La Cruz E, Metcalfe D, Williams M, Cornwell EE, Hughes K
• Cancer-Related Pain Is an Independent Predictor of In-Hospital Opioid Overdose: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2019 Onyeakusi NE, Mukhtar F, Gbadamosi SO, Oshunbade A, Adejumo AC, Olufajo O, Owoh J
• Are we doing too many non-therapeutic laparotomies in trauma? An analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.
  Surgical endoscopy 2019 Shamim AA, Zeineddin S, Zeineddin A, Olufajo OA, Mathelier GO, Cornwell Iii EE, Fullum T, Tran D
• Trends in Firearm Injuries Among Children and Teenagers in the United States.
  The Journal of surgical research 2019 Olufajo OA, Zeineddin A, Nonez H, Okorie NC, De La Cruz E, Cornwell EE, Williams M
• Association between long-term NSAID use and opioid abuse among patients with breast cancer.
  Cancer treatment and research communications 2019 Onyeakusi NE, Gbadamosi SO, Mukhtar F, Orji C, Ugwuowo U, Igbeta O, Adejumo A, Akanbi O, Olufajo OA
• Sarcopenia as a tool for preoperative decision-making.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2019 Rangel EL, Rios-Diaz AJ, Uyeda JW, Castillo-Angeles M, Cooper Z, Olufajo OA, Salim A, Sodickson AD
• Socioeconomic disparities in the complexity of hernias evaluated at Emergency Departments across the United States.
  American journal of surgery 2018 Nunez MF, Ortega G, Souza Mota LG, Olufajo OA, Altema DW, Fullum TM, Tran D
• Impact of public release of performance data on the behaviour of healthcare consumers and providers.
  The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2018 Metcalfe D, Rios Diaz AJ, Olufajo OA, Massa MS, Ketelaar NA, Flottorp SA, Perry DC
• Risk factors for prolonged need for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes in adult trauma patients: Experience of a level 1 trauma.
  Surgery 2018 Yorkgitis BK, Olufajo OA, Gurien LA, Kelly E, Salim A, Askari R
• Failure to rescue and disparities in emergency general surgery.
  The Journal of surgical research 2018 Metcalfe D, Castillo-Angeles M, Olufajo OA, Rios-Diaz AJ, Salim A, Haider AH, Havens JM
• Blunt splenic injury during colonoscopy: Is it as rare as we think?
  American journal of surgery 2018 Andrade EG, Olufajo OA, Drew EL, Bochicchio GV, Punch LJ
• Malnutrition at Intensive Care Unit Admission Predicts Mortality in Emergency General Surgery Patients.
  JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition 2017 Havens JM, Columbus AB, Seshadri AJ, Olufajo OA, Mogensen KM, Rawn JD, Salim A, Christopher KB
• Sarcopenia increases risk of long-term mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2017 Rangel EL, Rios-Diaz AJ, Uyeda JW, Castillo-Angeles M, Cooper Z, Olufajo OA, Salim A, Sodickson AD
• Do Transferred Patients Increase the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Centers?
  The American surgeon 2017 Yorkgitis BK, Olufajo OA, Metcalfe D, Reznor G, Havens JM, Cooper Z, Salim A
• The Need to Consider Longer-term Outcomes of Care: Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Adult and Older Adult Emergency General Surgery Patients at 30, 90, and 180 Days.
  Annals of surgery 2017 Zogg CK, Olufajo OA, Jiang W, Bystricky A, Scott JW, Shafi S, Havens JM, Salim A, Schoenfeld AJ, Haider AH
• Erratum to "Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury" [Am J Surg 211 (4) (2016) 744-749].
  American journal of surgery 2017 Freitas G, Olufajo OA, Hammouda K, Lin E, Cooper Z, Havens JM, Askari R, Salim A
• The Association Between Medicare Eligibility and Gains in Access to Rehabilitative Care: A National Regression Discontinuity Assessment of Patients Ages 64 Versus 65 Years.
  Annals of surgery 2017 Zogg CK, Scott JW, Metcalfe D, Seshadri AJ, Tsai TC, Davis WA, Rose JA, Olufajo OA, Zafar SN, Salim A, Haider AH
• Hospital characteristics associated with increased conversion rates among organ donors in New England.
  American journal of surgery 2017 Rios-Diaz AJ, Olufajo OA, Stinebring J, Endicott S, McKown BT, Metcalfe D, Zogg CK, Salim A
• Hospital Factors Associated With Care Discontinuity Following Emergency General Surgery.
  JAMA surgery 2017 Havens JM, Olufajo OA, Tsai TC, Jiang W, Columbus AB, Nitzschke SL, Cooper Z, Salim A
• Disparities in kidney transplantation across the United States: Does residential segregation play a role?
  American journal of surgery 2017 Olufajo OA, Adler JT, Yeh H, Zeliadt SB, Hernandez RA, Tullius SG, Backhus L, Salim A
• Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Insurance Coverage and Rehabilitation Use Among Young Adult Trauma Patients.
  JAMA surgery 2016 Zogg CK, Payró Chew F, Scott JW, Wolf LL, Tsai TC, Najjar P, Olufajo OA, Schneider EB, Haut ER, Haider AH, Canner JK
• Low baseline (pre-injury) blood pressure predicts inpatient mortality in elderly trauma patients: A bi-institutional study.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2016 Bohnen JD, Chang DC, Ramly EP, Olufajo OA, Le RT, Kaafarani HM, Yeh DD, King DR, Fagenholz PJ, Butler KL, Askari R, Salim A, Velmahos GC, de Moya M
• Geographic Distribution of Trauma Burden, Mortality, and Services in the United States: Does Availability Correspond to Patient Need?
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Rios-Diaz AJ, Metcalfe D, Olufajo OA, Zogg CK, Yorkgitis B, Singh M, Haider AH, Salim A
• Preoperative assessment of surgical risk: creation of a scoring tool to estimate 1-year mortality after emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly patient.
  American journal of surgery 2016 Olufajo OA, Reznor G, Lipsitz SR, Cooper ZR, Haider AH, Salim A, Rangel EL
• Does the Computed Tomographic Scan Tell the Whole Story for Cervical Spine Clearance?
  JAMA surgery 2016 Olufajo OA, Salim A
• Association of Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Score With Mortality in Emergency General Surgery Patients.
  JAMA surgery 2016 Havens JM, Columbus AB, Olufajo OA, Askari R, Salim A, Christopher KB
• The obesity paradox in patients with severe soft tissue infections.
  American journal of surgery 2016 Rios-Diaz AJ, Lin E, Williams K, Jiang W, Patel V, Shimizu N, Metcalfe D, Olufajo OA, Cooper Z, Havens J, Salim A, Askari R
• How long should we fear? Long-term risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with traumatic brain injury.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2016 Olufajo OA, Yorkgitis BK, Cooper Z, Rios-Diaz A, Metcalfe D, Havens JM, Kelly E, Haider AH, Gates JD, Salim A
• Functional status, age, and long-term survival after trauma.
  Surgery 2016 Peetz AB, Brat GA, Rydingsward J, Askari R, Olufajo OA, Elias KM, Mogensen KM, Lesage JL, Horkan CM, Salim A, Christopher KB
• Use of National Burden to Define Operative Emergency General Surgery.
  JAMA surgery 2016 Scott JW, Olufajo OA, Brat GA, Rose JA, Zogg CK, Haider AH, Salim A, Havens JM
• Are Older Adults With Hip Fractures Disadvantaged in Level 1 Trauma Centers?
  Medical care 2016 Metcalfe D, Olufajo OA, Zogg CK, Gates JD, Weaver MJ, Harris MB, Rios-Diaz AJ, Haider AH, Salim A
• Unplanned 30-day readmissions in orthopaedic trauma.
  Injury 2016 Metcalfe D, Olufajo OA, Zogg CK, Rios-Diaz A, Harris M, Weaver MJ, Haider AH, Salim A
• Inequalities in Specialist Hand Surgeon Distribution across the United States.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2016 Rios-Diaz AJ, Metcalfe D, Singh M, Zogg CK, Olufajo OA, Ramos MS, Caterson EJ, Talbot SG
• Hospital case volume and outcomes for proximal femoral fractures in the USA: an observational study.
  BMJ open 2016 Metcalfe D, Salim A, Olufajo O, Gabbe B, Zogg C, Harris MB, Perry DC, Costa ML
• Defining Rates and Risk Factors for Readmissions Following Emergency General Surgery.
  JAMA surgery 2016 Havens JM, Olufajo OA, Cooper ZR, Haider AH, Shah AA, Salim A
• Access to post-discharge inpatient care after lower limb trauma.
  The Journal of surgical research 2016 Metcalfe D, Davis WA, Olufajo OA, Rios-Diaz AJ, Chaudhary MA, Harris MB, Zogg CK, Weaver MJ, Salim A
• Integrating Geriatric Consults into Routine Care of Older Trauma Patients: One-Year Experience of a Level I Trauma Center.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Olufajo OA, Tulebaev S, Javedan H, Gates J, Wang J, Duarte M, Kelly E, Lilley E, Salim A, Cooper Z
• Does Hospital Experience Rather than Volume Improve Outcomes in Geriatric Trauma Patients?
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2016 Olufajo OA, Metcalfe D, Rios-Diaz A, Lilley E, Havens JM, Kelly E, Weissman JS, Haider AH, Salim A, Cooper Z
• Comparing Readmissions and Infectious Complications of Blunt Splenic Injuries Using a Statewide Database.
  Surgical infections 2016 Olufajo OA, Rios-Diaz A, Peetz AB, Williams KJ, Havens JM, Cooper ZR, Gates JD, Haider AH, Salim A, Askari R
• Are appendectomy outcomes in level I trauma centers as good as we think?
  The Journal of surgical research 2016 Metcalfe D, Olufajo O, Rios-Diaz AJ, Haider A, Havens JM, Nitzschke S, Cooper Z, Salim A
• Postdischarge complications following nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury.
  American journal of surgery 2016 Freitas G, Olufajo OA, Hammouda K, Lin E, Cooper Z, Havens JM, Askari R, Salim A
• Association of Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Score and Mortality in Trauma Patients With Chronic Liver Disease.
  JAMA surgery 2016 Peetz A, Salim A, Askari R, De Moya MA, Olufajo OA, Simon TG, Gibbons FK, Christopher KB
• The truth about trauma readmissions.
  American journal of surgery 2015 Olufajo OA, Cooper Z, Yorkgitis BK, Najjar PA, Metcalfe D, Havens JM, Askari R, Brat GA, Haider AH, Salim A
• Whatever happens to trauma patients who leave against medical advice?
  American journal of surgery 2015 Olufajo OA, Metcalfe D, Yorkgitis BK, Cooper Z, Askari R, Havens JM, Brat GA, Haider AH, Salim A
• Mortality after emergency surgery continues to rise after discharge in the elderly: Predictors of 1-year mortality.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2015 Rangel EL, Cooper Z, Olufajo OA, Reznor G, Lipsitz SR, Salim A, Kwakye G, Calahan C, Sarhan M, Hanna JS
• Translating comparative effectiveness research into Medicaid payment policy: views from medical and pharmacy directors.
  Journal of comparative effectiveness research 2015 Weissman JS, Westrich K, Hargraves JL, Pearson SD, Dubois R, Emond S, Olufajo OA
• Tobacco-free schools as a core component of youth tobacco prevention programs: a secondary analysis of data from 43 countries.
  European journal of public health 2014 Agaku IT, Obadan EM, Odukoya OO, Olufajo O
• Exposure to secondhand smoke and voluntary adoption of smoke-free home and car rules among non-smoking South African adults.
  BMC public health 2014 Ayo-Yusuf OA, Olufajo O, Agaku IT
• Assessment of secondhand smoke exposure at school among U.S. Middle and high school students.
  The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses 2014 Olufajo OA, Agaku IT
• Support for smoke-free cars when children are present: a secondary analysis of 164,819 U.S. adults in 2010/2011.
  European journal of pediatrics 2014 Agaku IT, Odukoya OO, Olufajo O, Filippidis FT, Vardavas CI