ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2003
Risk of emergency admission while awaiting elective cholecystectomy.
Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05745077 (Using Data to Achieve Surgical Health Equity in the Community), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Elective Surgery in Adult Patients with Excess Weight: Can Preoperative Dietary Interventions Improve Surgical Outcomes? A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Early Cholecystectomy Is Superior to Delayed Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis: a Meta-analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2015Pooled it
- Early versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for uncomplicated biliary colic.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Determinants and outcomes of early cholecystectomy for mild gallstone pancreatitis in British Columbia, Canada.Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Emergency cholecystectomy: risk factors and impact of delay on electively booked patients, a 5-year experience of a tertiary care center.BMC surgery · 2024Article
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- Metabolic dysfunction-associated gallstone disease: expecting more from critical care manifestations.Internal and emergency medicine · 2023Review
- Decreased Emergency Cholecystectomy and Case Fatality Rate, Not Explained by Expansion of Medicaid.The Journal of surgical research · 2023Article
- Administrative codes may have limited utility in diagnosing biliary colic in emergency department visits: A validation study.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2022Article
- Cholecystectomy for Complicated Gallbladder and Common Biliary Duct Stones: Current Surgical Management.Frontiers in surgery · 2020Review
- Critical Care Aspects of Gallstone Disease.Journal of critical care medicine (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie din Targu-Mures) · 2019Article
- What happens to biliary colic patients in New York State? 10-year follow-up from emergency department visits.Surgical endoscopy · 2018Article
- Process mapping as a framework for performance improvement in emergency general surgery.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2018Article
- Hospital readmission after emergency room visit for cholelithiasis.The Journal of surgical research · 2015Article
- Acute Cholecystitis.Viszeralmedizin · 2015Review
- Response to comment on "Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and appendicectomy in situs inversus totalis".Journal of minimal access surgery · 2012Article
- General surgery 2.0: the emergence of acute care surgery in Canada.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2010Article
- English NHS waiting times: what next?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2009Article
- Urgent cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis in a district general hospital - is it feasible?Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2009Article
- Risk of incarceration of inguinal hernia among infants and young children awaiting elective surgery.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2008Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is uncertainty regarding the frequency of adverse events while on a surgical waiting list. We assess the relationship between the duration of wait for cholecystectomy and the risk of emergency admission.
methodsWe analyzed time to emergency admission in a group of 761 patients who underwent cholecystectomy after being seen in clinic for biliary colic and placed on waiting lists at 2 acute care centres in Ontario, from 1997 to 2000.
resultsEmergency admissions due to worsening symptoms occurred in 51 patients (6.7%) waiting for elective cholecystectomy. The weekly rate of emergency admission was low during the first 19 weeks on the list, but increased almost by a factor of 3 after 20 weeks (rate ratio 2.7; 95% confidence interval 2.0-3.7). Relative to the first 4 weeks on the list, the rate was 1.6 times higher after 20 weeks, 2 times higher after 28 weeks and 7 times higher after 40 weeks.
interpretationThe probability that a patient on a waiting list will be admitted for emergency cholecystectomy consistently increases with the duration of wait, particularly after 20 weeks.
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