Room for Improvement in Emergency Surgery Quality

In this video, Martin Paul, MD, of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, discusses a new study in JAMA Surgery that found just seven procedures account for 80% of the admissions, deaths, and complications associated with emergency surgeries. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston examined more than 400,000 emergency surgical procedures over a 4-year period.

Paul wrote in an accompanying editorial that the human costs of these emergency surgical procedures are "staggering," and that the study findings could be used to promote quality improvement in these surgeries.

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Room for Improvement in Emergency Surgery Quality