Emergency general surgery: can we do better?

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¹ Department of Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA; Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: henry.pitt@tuhs.temple.edu.

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Matthew M Philp et al. Lancet. 2019.

. 2019 Jun 1;393(10187):2178-2180.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32982-9. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

¹ Department of Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA; Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: henry.pitt@tuhs.temple.edu.

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