Trauma surgery to acute care surgery: Defining the paradigm shift

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1024-1030

  Galante, Joseph M ^a   Phan, Ho H ^a   Wisner, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care; Benchmarking; Surgery; Trauma

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDECTOMY; BENCHMARKING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DRAINAGE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RECTAL DISEASES; RELATIVE VALUE SCALES; SPECIALIZATION; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77952265968     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181d76bf6     Document Type: Article

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