Enhancing the emergency general surgical service: an example of the aggregation of marginal gains.

CONCLUSION: The expansion of the 'traditional' on-call surgical team, the establishment of the surgical ambulatory care clinic and the gastrointestinal urgent theatre list led to marginal gains with a reduction in unnecessary inpatient stays, expedited decision making and improved financial efficiency.
PMID: 31155901 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - June 2, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Panagiotopoulou IG, Bennett J, Tweedle EM, Di Saverio S, Gourgiotis S, Hardwick RH, Wheeler J, Justin Davies R Tags: Ann R Coll Surg Engl Source Type: research