Comparison of Appendectomy Outcomes Between Senior General Surgeons and General Surgery Residents | Zendy

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Comparison of Appendectomy Outcomes Between Senior General Surgeons and General Surgery Residents

Author(s) -

Baha Siam,

Abbas AlKurd,

Natalia Simanovsky,

Haitham Awesat,

Yahav Cohn,

Brigitte Helou,

Ahmed Eid,

Haggi Mazeh

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

jama surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 2168-6262

pISSN - 2168-6254

DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.0578

Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , emergency department , complication , surgery , general surgery , general hospital , cohort , nursing

In some centers, the presence of a senior general surgeon (SGS) is obligatory in every procedure, including appendectomy, while in others it is not. There is a relative paucity in the literature of reports comparing the outcomes of appendectomies performed by unsupervised general surgery residents (GSRs) with those performed in the presence of an SGS.

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