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UrduThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new Age Friendly Hospital Measure Thursday based on work by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and designed to improve the care and outcomes of older adult patients.
Tag: emergency surgery
Emergency General Surgery Verification Program Verifies First Five Hospitals
Five hospitals are among the first in the nation to be verified under the new American College of Surgeons Emergency General Surgery Verification Program (ACS EGS-VP) launched in September 2022.
Achieving Prevention and Health, Rather Than More Healthcare
If more people have access to health insurance, we have to be sure the death rates of those with certain chronic conditions are decreasing.
Operations for diverticulitis decreased in 2020, but the degree of disease severity increased
The first year of the COVID pandemic significantly altered how patients and providers treated diverticulitis, causing a significant drop in operations to manage the disease but a corresponding increase in the proportion of more severe cases and the need for emergency surgery.
A surgeon’s birthday may be a dicey day for older patients
Older people who undergo emergency surgeries on their operating surgeon’s birthday may be more likely to die within a month than patients who go through similar procedures on other days, a new UCLA-led study suggests.