A research agenda for emergency general surgery: Health policy and basic science

摘要

Acute care surgery encompasses the fields of trauma, bum and surgical critical care, and now emergency general surgery (EGS). The EGS patient is defined by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Severity Assessment Committee as any patient (inpatient or emergency department) requiring an emergency surgical evaluatiori (operative or nonoperative) for a disease generally considered within the realm of general surgery. In an accompanying article, Shafi1 present the technical definition of EGS using DRG International Classification of Diseases—9th Rev. codes and identified 260 conditions as primary EGS diagnosis codes.