Journal of the American College of Surgeons
What's the Rush? Challenging the Early Surgery Paradigm for Older Adults in Emergency General Surgery.
William M Rice, Alexa P Shaw, Rebecca C Britt, L D Britt, Jessica R Burgess
Published: 202610.1097/XCS.0000000000001749
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Rising patient volumes and an aging population are leading to difficulties in providing timely surgical intervention in emergency general surgery (EGS). With decreased resilience and greater comorbidity burden, we hypothesized that older…
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