Impact of a regional acute care surgery model on patient access and outcomes | Zendy

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Impact of a regional acute care surgery model on patient access and outcomes

Author(s) -

Sara A. Kreindler,

Liping Zhang,

Colleen Metge,

Richard W. Nason,

Brock Wright,

Wendy Rudnick,

Michael Moffatt

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.007012

Subject(s) - medicine , referral , economic shortage , emergency medicine , health care , medical emergency , healthcare system , pediatrics , family medicine , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , economics , economic growth

The consolidation of acute care surgery (ACS) services at 3 of 6 hospitals in a Canadian health region sought to alleviate a relative shortage of surgeons able to take emergency call. We examined how this affected patient access and outcomes.

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