The Impact of a Dedicated Acute Care Surgery Service on Team Efficiency and Resident Education at a Military Level 1 Trauma Hospital

Abstract

Over 2 million patients with emergency general surgery conditions are admitted annually in the US. Dedicated acute care surgery (ACS) teams Manage emergency general surgical consults Offload workload from the trauma and general surgical teams.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1151856

Entities

People

  • Anne E. O'shea
  • Emily Pospiech
  • Jason S Radowsky
  • Phillip M Kemp Bohan
  • Robert C. Chick
  • Robert Krell
  • Valerie G. Sams

Organizations

  • 59th Medical Wing

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biliary Tract Diseases
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Efficiency
  • Emergencies
  • General Surgery
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Intervals
  • Intervention
  • Pancreatitis
  • Patient Care
  • Surgery
  • Time Intervals
  • Training
  • Workload

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine