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Quality of care in emergency general surgery

2014-01-01

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There are more than 600,000 emergency general surgery admissions per year in England. These patients comprise about 50 percent of general surgical workload but make up 80-90 percent of all general surgical deaths. In recent years surgical colleges and societies in the UK have warned of significant variability in the quality of care between hospitals but, to date, little formal evaluation of the quality of care in...

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DOI: 10.25560/18617

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