The financial burden of emergency general surgery: National estimates 2010 to 2060

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 444-448

  Ogola, Gerald O ^a   Gale, Stephen C ^b   Haider, Adil ^c   Shafi, Shahid ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EAST TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

costs; Emergency general surgery; national estimates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL SURGERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY; FORECASTING; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940858729     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000787     Document Type: Article

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