Reducing emergency surgery cuts health care costs

19 December 2014

Researchers have determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon resection. The research indicates that reducing emergency surgery for three common procedures by 10 percent could cut $1 billion in health care costs over 10 years.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/I4hsFeDD5JM/141219160558.htm

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