Why the study?
The study was conducted to compare the outcomes and characteristics of the acute care surgery system and the traditional on-call system for acute appendicitis in South Korea.
Does an acute care surgery system improve outcomes such as length of hospital stay in adult patients undergoing surgery for acute appendicitis?
Does an acute care surgery system improve outcomes such as length of hospital stay in adult patients undergoing surgery for acute appendicitis?
Implementation of an acute care surgery system for acute appendicitis significantly reduced the length of hospital stay compared to a traditional on-call system.
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Shorter LOS with ACS for appendicitis; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before changing practice.
Yi et al. (2021) studied this question.
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