Open AccessThe Changing Face of Emergency General Surgery
Author(s) -
Jared M Wohlgemut,
George Ramsay,
Jan O. Jansen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/sla.0000000000003066
Subject(s) - medicine , demographics , epidemiology , poisson regression , population , medical diagnosis , demography , secular variation , incidence (geometry) , pediatrics , emergency medicine , environmental health , pathology , physics , sociology , optics
The aim of the study was to evaluate secular trends in the epidemiology of emergency general surgery (EGS), by analyzing changes in demographics, diagnoses, operations, and outcomes between 1997 and 2016.