Emergency general surgery: impact of distance and rurality on mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is debate about whether the distance from hospital, or rurality, impacts outcomes in patients admitted under emergency general surgery (EGS). The aim of this study was to determine whether distance from hospital, or rurality, affects the mortality of emergency surgical patients admitted in Scotland.

Methods

This was a retrospective population-level cohort study, including all EGS patients in Scotland aged 16 years or older admitted between 1998 and 2018. A multiple logistic regression model was created with inpatient mortality as the dependent variable, and distance from hospital (in quartiles) as the independent variable of interest, adjusting for age, sex, co-morbidity, deprivation, admission origin, diagnosis category, operative category, and year of admi

SUBMITTER: Wohlgemut JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9035437 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature