Inconvenient Truth Regarding Operative Emergencies in General Surgery (note: adhesive small bowel surgery...)

The JAMA Network

 To the Editor We congratulate Scott and colleagues¹ for their excellent study on the use of national burden to define operative emergency general surgery. In their study,¹ they elaborate on 7 operative emergency general surgery procedures that account for approximately 80% of the national burden in terms of frequency, morbidity, mortality, and cost.

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