Sara Sakowitz, Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, Zihan Gao, Saad Mallick, Amulya Vadlakonda, Troy Coaston, Jeffrey Balian, Nikhil Chervu, Peyman Benharash
BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing emergency general surgery (EGS) often require complex management and transfer to higher acuity facilities, especially given increasing national efforts aimed at centralizing care. We sought to characterize factors and evaluate outcomes associated with interhospital transfer using a contemporary national cohort. METHODS: All adult hospitalizations for EGS (appendectomy, cholecystectomy, laparotomy, lysis of adhesions, small/large bowel resection, and perforated ulcer repair) ≤2 days of admission were identified in the 2016-2020 National Inpatient Sample...
April 3, 2024: American Surgeon