Background To increase bed capacity and resources, hospitals have postponed elective
surgeries, although the financial impact of this decision is unknown. We sought to report …

Importance Hospitals with emergency surgical services provide essential care for a wide range
of time-sensitive diseases. Commonly used measures of spatial access, such as distance …

BACKGROUND The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) was recently developed and retrospectively
validated as an accurate mortality risk calculator for emergency general surgery. We …

Importance Care fragmentation at time of readmission after emergency general surgery (EGS)
is associated with high mortality; however, the factors underlying this finding remain …

Background Percutaneous Cholecystostomy Tubes (PCT) have become an accepted and
common modality of treating acute cholecystitis in patients that are not appropriate surgical …

Background: Hospitals show wide variation in outcomes and systems of care. It is unclear
whether hospital complexity—the range of services and technologies provided—affects …

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse outcomes after
elective surgery, but the effect on emergency general surgery (EGS) remains unclear. We …

Background Injury sustained in rural areas has been shown to carry higher mortality rates
than trauma in urban settings. This disparity is partially attributed to increased distance from …

BACKGROUND Emergency general surgery (EGS) encompasses a spectrum of time-sensitive
and resource-intensive conditions, which require adequate and timely access to surgical …

BACKGROUND Single-center data demonstrates that regional analgesia (RA) techniques
are associated with reduced risk of delirium in older patients with multiple rib fractures. We …