Technical Evidence Review for Emergency Major Abdominal Operation Conducted for the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, American College of Surgeons, Chicago; Departments of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Electronic address: lhu@facs.org.
• ² Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
• ³ Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, American College of Surgeons, Chicago; Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH.
• ⁴ Departments of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
• ⁵ Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, American College of Surgeons, Chicago; Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁶ Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, American College of Surgeons, Chicago; Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL.
• ⁷ Anesthesiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
• ⁸ Division of Research and Optimal Patient Care, American College of Surgeons, Chicago; Departments of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
• ⁹ Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
• ¹⁰ Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Johns Hopkins Medicine, Armstrong Institute for Quality and Safety, Baltimore, MD.