Timothy Pritts, MD, PhD, professor of surgery in the UC College of Medicine, spoke with a Reuters Health journalist about a new study that suggests emergency surgery patients cared for by early-career "acute-care" surgeons have similar mortality rates as patients with more senior surgeons but are more likely to need to go back to the operating room.
"The data examined in this study are significantly more detailed than in previous studies," Pritts told Reuters Health.
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