The impact of an acute care surgery clinical care pathway for suspected appendicitis on the use of CT in the emergency department | Zendy

Chad G. Ball | Zendy; Elijah Dixon | Zendy; Anthony R. MacLean | Zendy; Gilaad G. Kaplan | Zendy; Lynn Nicholson | Zendy; Francis Sutherland | Zendy

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The impact of an acute care surgery clinical care pathway for suspected appendicitis on the use of CT in the emergency department

Author(s) -

Chad G. Ball,

Elijah Dixon,

Anthony R. MacLean,

Gilaad G. Kaplan,

Lynn Nicholson,

Francis Sutherland

Publication year - 2014

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.019912

Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , triage , acute appendicitis , appendicitis , emergency medicine , care pathway , radiological weapon , acute care , emergency surgery , health care , general surgery , radiology , surgery , psychiatry , economics , economic growth

The natural evolution of an acute care surgery (ACS) service is to develop disease-specific care pathways aimed at quality improvement. Our primary goal was to evaluate the implementation of an ACS pathway dedicated to suspected appendicitis on patient flow and the use of computed tomography (CT) in the emergency department (ED).

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