Acute Care Emergency General Surgery Model: Assigning Priority

I read with great interest the article entitled, “Acute care surgery model and outcomes in emergency general surgery” in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, by To and colleagues.1 This is the first multi-institutional study that showed significant reduction (31%) of 30-day mortality in emergency general surgery (EGS) cases in an a cute care surgery (ACS) model compared with that of the general surgery service (GSS) model. It delivered an important message worldwide, where EGS is being delivered in the GSS model by surgeons with subspecialty interests or with suboptimal training in EGS.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Letter Source Type: research