The concept of acute care surgery: A vision for the not-so-distant future

Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 288-290

  Velmahos, George C ^a   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CARE SURGERY; AGED; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 33847631313     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.12.017     Document Type: Editorial

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