Importance Older adults with recent injuries can have impaired long-term biopsychosocial
function and may benefit from interventions adapted to their needs. Objective To determine if …

BACKGROUND There are no national studies of nonelective readmissions after emergency
general surgery (EGS) diagnoses that track nonindex hospital readmission. We sought to …

BACKGROUND Regionalization of emergency general surgery (EGS) has primarily focused
on expediting care of high acuity patients through interfacility transfers. In contrast, triaging …

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with worse outcomes after
elective surgery, but the effect on emergency general surgery (EGS) remains unclear. We …

Aims It is unclear whether mortality outcomes differ for patients undergoing total hip
arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery who are readmitted to the index …

BACKGROUND Acute care surgeons perform more than 850,000 operations annually on
emergency general surgery patients in the United States. Emergency general surgery …

Background Fragmented care for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is known to correlate
negatively with outcomes, but it is unclear which aspects of care fragmentation are relevant …

Objective To assess the impact of geographic access to surgical center on readmission risk
and burden in children after congenital heart surgery. Study design Children< 6 years old at …

Robotic-assisted surgical techniques have grown exponentially over the past several years,
with adoption across many surgical subspecialties, including acute care surgery (ACS). In …

The health care system for the elderly is fragmented, that is worsened when readmission
occurs to different hospitals. There is limited investigation into the impact of fragmentation on …