Twenty‐year study of in‐hospital and postdischarge mortality following emergency general surgical admission

Abstract

Mortality after EGS in Scotland has reduced significantly over the past 20 years. This analysis of medium-term mortality after EGS admission demonstrates strikingly high rates, and postdischarge death rates are higher than is currently appreciated.

References

Page 1

	Year	Citations
Validation of a combined comorbidity index Mary E. Charlson, Ted P. Szatrowski, Janey C. Peterson, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology PsychiatryCombined Comorbidity IndexComorbid Psychiatric DisorderOutcomes ResearchMental Health	1994	6.4K
A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population Alex B. Haynes, Thomas G. Weiser, William R. Berry, New England Journal of Medicine	2009	5.5K
The public health burden of emergency general surgery in the United States Stephen C. Gale, Shahid Shafi, Viktor Y. Dombrovskiy, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care	2014	394
Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle- and low-income countries British journal of surgery	2016	278
Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly: Too Old or Too Frail? Bellal Joseph, Bardiya Zangbar, Viraj Pandit, Journal of the American College of Surgeons	2016	241
Mortality in high-risk emergency general surgical admissions Nicholas Symons, Krishna Moorthy, Alex M. Almoudaris, British journal of surgery	2013	176
Mortality of emergency general surgical patients and associations with hospital structures and processes Baris Ata Ozdemir, Sidhartha Sinha, Alan Karthikesalingam, British Journal of Anaesthesia	2015	131
Emergency general surgery specific frailty index Tahereh Orouji Jokar, Kareem Ibraheem, Peter Rhee, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care	2016	128
Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative Alex B. Haynes, Lizabeth Edmondson, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Annals of Surgery	2017	114
Effect of Surgeon and Hospital Volume on Emergency General Surgery Outcomes Ambar Mehta, David T. Efron, Joseph K. Canner, Journal of the American College of Surgeons	2017	93

Page 1