BACKGROUND Trauma patients are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE).
One in four trauma readmissions occur at a different hospital. There are no national studies …

Objective: We hypothesized that perioperative hospital resources could overcome the
“weekend effect”(WE) in patients undergoing emergent/urgent surgeries. Summary …

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Background Weekend admission is associated with increased mortality across a range of
patient populations and health-care systems. The aim of this study was to determine whether …

Introduction Healthcare disparities linked to patient rurality and socioeconomic status are
known to exist, but few studies have examined the effect of urban versus rural status on …

Context Palliative care (PC) for seriously ill surgical patients, including aligning treatments
with patients' goals and managing symptoms, is associated with improved patient-oriented …

Importance Emergency general surgery (EGS) represents 11% of hospitalizations, and
almost half of these hospitalized patients are older adults. Older adults have high rates of …

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing emergency general surgery (EGS) procedures are up
to eight times more likely to die than patients undergoing the same procedures electively …

Background A significant proportion of postoperative readmission occurs at a different
hospital and is therefore missed by current benchmarking. There are no national studies …

Introduction Although high rates of in-hospital mortality have been described in older
patients undergoing emergency laparotomy (EL), less is known about longer-term outcomes …