Review of an emergency general surgery process improvement program at a verified military trauma center
- 2 July 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Surgical Endoscopy
- Vol. 32 (10) , 4321-4328
Abstract
Decreasing combat-based admissions to our military facility have made it difficult to maintain a robust trauma process improvement (PI) program. Since emergency general surgery (EGS) and trauma patients share similarities, we merged the care of our EGS and trauma patients into one acute care surgery (ACS) team. An EGS PI program was developed based on trauma PI principles to facilitate continued identification of opportunities for improvement despite our decline in trauma admissions. Analysis of the first 18 months of combined ACS PI data is presented.Keywords
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