Acute care surgery: a means for providing cost-effective, quality care for gallstone pancreatitis

Acute care surgery: a means for providing cost-effective, quality care for gallstone pancreatitis

Abstract Background Modern practice guidelines recommend index cholecystectomy (IC) for patients admitted with gallstone pancreatitis (GSP). However, this benchmark has been difficult to widely achieve. Previous work has demonstrated that dedicated acute care surgery (ACS) services can facilitate IC...

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Main Authors: Patrick B. Murphy, Dave Paskar, Richard Hilsden, Jennifer Koichopolos, Tina S. Mele, on behalf of Western Ontario Research Collaborative on Acute Care Surgery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:World Journal of Emergency Surgery
Subjects:
Acute care surgery
Quality
Cost effectiveness
Gallstone pancreatitis
Cholecystectomy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13017-017-0128-3

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