{"doi":"10.1093/asj/sjaa056","title":"The Potential Impact of Plastic Surgery Expertise on Body Contouring Procedure Outcomes","abstract":"BACKGROUND: With the increasing demand for body contouring procedures in the United States over the past 2 decades, more surgeons with diverse specialty training are performing these procedures. However, little is known regarding the comparative outcomes of these patients. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes of body contouring procedures based on the specialty training of the surgeon. METHODS: Data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (2005-2015) were reviewed for all body contouring procedures. Patients were stratified by surgeon training (plastic surgery [PS] vs general surgery [GS]). Descriptive statistics and regression analyses were used to evaluate differences in outcomes. RESULTS: A total of 11,658 patients were included; 9502 PS cases and 2156 GS cases. Most were women (90.4%), aged 40 to 59 (52.7%) and white (79.5%). Compared with PS patients, GS patients were more likely to be obese (61.4% vs 40.6%), smokers (13.6% vs 9.8%), and with ASA classification ≥3 (35.3% vs 18.6%) (all P < 0.001). Abdominal contouring procedures were the most common (76%) cases. Multivariate regression revealed that compared with PS cases, those performed by GS practitioners were associated with increased wound and infectious complications (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.81; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.44-2.27), reoperation (aOR, 1.85; 95% CI, 1.31-2.62), and predicted mean length of stay (1.12 days; 95% CI, 0.64-1.60 days). CONCLUSIONS: The variable outcomes in body contouring procedures performed by PS compared with GS practitioners may imply procedural-algorithmic differences between the subspecialties, leading to the noted outcome differential.","journal":"Aesthetic Surgery Journal","year":2020,"id":89808,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":8,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9178,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":454170,"name":"George N. Washington","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":454171,"name":"Olumayowa Abiodun","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":453405,"name":"Olubode A. Olufajo","orcid":"0000-0002-1565-538X","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":454172,"name":"India Jones","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":454173,"name":"DeMario Montez Butts","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":409736,"name":"Gezzer Ortega","orcid":"0000-0003-2049-811X","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":454174,"name":"Henry Paul","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":454169,"name":"Dylan R Bezzini","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":26,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T22:02:27.195966Z","pmid":"32133491","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}