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The unequal impact of interhospital transfers on emergency general surgery patients: Procedure risk and time to surgery matter

  • Raul Coimbra
  • , Robert Barrientos
  • , Timothy Allison-Aipa
  • , Bishoy Zakhary
  • , Matthew Firek

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)296-304
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Volume92
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2022

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Surgery
  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Keywords

  • Complications
  • Emergency general surgery
  • Hospital readmission
  • Interhospital transfer
  • Mortality
  • Hospital Mortality
  • Time-to-Treatment
  • United States
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Risk Factors
  • Emergencies
  • Length of Stay/statistics & numerical data
  • Male
  • General Surgery
  • Reoperation/statistics & numerical data
  • Postoperative Complications/epidemiology
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Aged
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Patient Readmission/statistics & numerical data
  • Patient Transfer

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