Why the study?
Rapid judgement and prompt emergency surgery determine prognosis in emergency general surgery, motivating an evaluation of whether implementing the acute care surgery system in Korea improves clinical outcomes.
Does the implementation of an acute care surgery (ACS) system improve clinical outcomes in patients requiring emergency general surgery?
Does the implementation of an acute care surgery (ACS) system improve clinical outcomes in patients requiring emergency general surgery?
Implementation of an acute care surgery system significantly reduces time to surgery and postoperative complications in patients requiring emergency general surgery.
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ACS systems were associated with faster ER-to-OR transfer and fewer complications; leaves open need for randomized confirmation before practice change.
Yi et al. (2024) studied this question.
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