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Lewis J Kaplan1, Heidi Lee Frankel, Horacio Hojman

  • 1Department of Surgery, Section of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. lewis.kaplan@yale.edu

The Journal of Trauma
|November 19, 2005
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Adding a full emergency general surgery (EGS) service to a trauma/critical care (TCC) unit increased billings and patient volume. However, this expansion required additional staff and faculty investment, impacting individual time.

Area of Science:

  • Surgical Services Management
  • Healthcare Economics
  • Trauma Care Systems

Background:

  • Trauma/critical care (TCC) services often have limited emergency general surgery (EGS) activity.
  • A Level I trauma center evaluated the integration of a full EGS arm into its existing TCC service.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To conduct a cost-benefit analysis of expanding EGS services within a TCC framework.
  • To assess the impact of integrating a full EGS arm on clinical activity and financial performance.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of TCC data before and after assuming care of all unassigned EGS patients.
  • Inclusion of patient volume, demographics, service data, procedures, on-call activity, and professional billings.
  • Statistical analysis using t-tests and chi-squared tests for intergroup comparisons (p < 0.05 significance).

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Main Results:

  • EGS integration increased coverage weeks and necessitated additional staffing.
  • Trauma operative volume remained stable, while EGS and elective case load significantly increased (p < 0.01).
  • Billings increased across operating room, ICU, and outpatient services (p < 0.01), despite reduced on-call nonclinical hours.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating a full EGS into a TCC service enhances billings through increased unscheduled clinical activity.
  • The benefits of EGS expansion were achieved at the cost of increased faculty time and recruitment investment.