Defining a specialty through its literature: A bibliometric analysis of acute care surgery 2005 to 2020

Background: Acute care surgery (ACS) has grown and evolved since it was conceived in 2005. However, ACS is not recognized in the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Heading thesaurus. This article uses bibliometrics to help define an identity for ACS as a subspecialty of surgery and...

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Main Authors: John A. Aucar, MD, MSHI, FACS, CPE, Jessica M. Veatch, MD, Elizabeth Kiscaden, MLIS, AHIP
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-10-01
Series:Surgery Open Science
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589845022000409