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April 28, 2016JAMA Surgery

Only 7 procedures account for most admissions, deaths, complications, and inpatient costs attributable to the 512,079 EGS procedures performed in the United States each year.

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512,079 Emergency General Surgery (EGS) procedures performed in the United States each year

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Authors

JSJohn W. ScottOOOlubode A. OlufajoGBGabriel A. Brat

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Overview

Identifies high-burden EGS procedures as potential quality targets; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.

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Population
512,079 Emergency General Surgery (EGS) procedures performed in the United States each year
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Outcome
Admissions, deaths, complications, and inpatient costs

Seven procedures account for the majority of the national burden of emergency general surgery, highlighting key targets for quality improvement and cost reduction.

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Scott et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d734c10420a49c9848f588https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2016.0480
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