Emergency general surgery (EGS) accounts for 11% of hospital admissions, with more than
3 million admissions per year and more than 50% of operative mortality in the US. Recent …

Emergency General Surgery (EGS) patients represent a unique group of acutely ill surgical
patients at high risk for death and complications. Since the inception of EGS as a surgical …

Background The Predictive Optimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) tool is an
artificial intelligence-based calculator for the prediction of 30-day outcomes in patients …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of multimorbidity on long-term outcomes for
older emergency general surgery patients. STUDY DESIGN: Medicare beneficiaries, age 65 …

Objective: This study aimed to answer 2 questions: first, to what degree does hospital
operative volume affect mortality for adult patients undergoing 1 of 10 common emergency …

Abstract Background The Emergency Surgery Score (ESS) is an accurate mortality risk
calculator for emergency general surgery (EGS). We sought to assess whether ESS can …

BACKGROUND It has been theorized that a tiered, regionalized system of care for
emergency general surgery (EGS) patients—akin to regional trauma systems—would …

BACKGROUND While the short-term risks of emergency general surgery (EGS) admission
among older adults have been studied, little is known about long-term functional outcomes …

Background Emergency general surgery (EGS) patients have a higher mortality than those
having elective surgery. Few studies have investigated changes in EGS-associated mortality …

Patients with emergency general surgery (EGS) diagnoses comprise over 10% of all
hospital admissions, resulting in a projected number of 4.2 million admissions for 2023 …