Item Details

title

Surgeon Volume and Operative Mortality for Emergency General Surgery Operations

author

Becher, Robert D.

abstract

The relationship between surgeon-volume to operative mortality is well established for elective surgical procedures in the United States. However, the importance of this relationship in emergency operations is not understood. Using a primary dataset looking at emergent colon resections over a three year period at one tertiary medical center, we examined the relationship between surgeon volume and operative mortality for emergent colorectal surgical procedures.

subject

Acute Care Surgery

Crisis in surgical care

Emergency General Surgery

Regionalization

Systems of surgical care

Volume to outcomes relationship

contributor

Hoth, J. Jason (committee chair)

Bertoni, Alain (committee member)

Case, Doug (committee member)

Easterling, Doug (committee member)

date

2014-01-15T09:35:22Z (accessioned)

2016-01-15T09:30:11Z (available)

2013 (issued)

degree

Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)

embargo

2016-01-15 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39118 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis