Value in acute care surgery, part 3: Defining value in acute surgical care-It depends on the perspective

Patricia R Ayoung-Chee1, Amy V Gore, Brandon Bruns

  • 1From the Department of Surgery (P.R.A.-C.), Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; Department of Surgery (A.V.G.), Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Department of Surgery (B.B.), University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Surgery (L.M.K., K.L.S.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto; Department of Surgery (J.N.), University of California, Irvine, California; Department of Surgery (K.A.D.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Surgery (S.L.), Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, Virginia; Department of Surgery (S.W.R., R.S.M.), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Department of Surgery (L.R.S.), Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, Meridian, Idaho; and Department of Surgery (C.V.), University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado.

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