Population
7,041 emergency operations, including 2,949 general surgical emergency procedures
Comparison
Emergency surgery performed out of hours or… vs Emergency surgery performed during the day or…
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Supports infrastructure planning for out-of-hours emergency surgery in regionalized systems; leaves open effects on outcomes.
A significant proportion of major emergency surgeries are performed out of hours, highlighting the need for infrastructure planning to accommodate emergency surgery in the context of regionalization.
Beecher et al. (2015) studied this question.
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