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Coming next month in JACS and online now: Transferred emergency general surgery patients are at increased risk of death: A NSQIP propensity score-matched analysis

Interhospital transfer status has a small effect on mortality and morbidity in the emergency general surgery population, according to a new JACS study.

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May 1, 2019

Manuel Castillo-Angeles, MD, MPH; Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, MD, MPH; Molly Jarman, PhD; and colleagues report in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) that after rigorous risk adjustment, interhospital transfer status has a small effect on mortality and morbidity in the emergency general surgery population. This could suggest that it is reasonable to transfer patients and that regionalization of care should be encouraged.

This article and all other JACS content is available online.