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Distance travelled to hospital for emergency laparotomy and the effect of travel time on mortality: cohort study

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether distance and estimated travel time to hospital for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy is associated with postoperative mortality. DESIGN: National cohort study using data from the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit. SETTING: 171 National Health Service hospital...

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Autores principales: Salih, Tom, Martin, Peter, Poulton, Tom, Oliver, Charles M, Bassett, Mike G, Moonesinghe, S Ramani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8070618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32576606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010747