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ArticleTrauma surgery & acute care open2026

Optimizing your output: maximizing documentation efficiency and improving reimbursement.

Kaitlin Anne Ritter, Lisa Marie Knowlton, Jennifer M Gurney, Stephanie Bonne, Samir M Fakhry

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Article in Trauma surgery & acute care open, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kaitlin Anne RitterSurgery, Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, New York, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2877-0096
Lisa Marie KnowltonGeneral Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6046-5035
Jennifer M GurneyDefense Committees on Trauma, Joint Trauma System, JBSA Fort Sam, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0451-1137
Stephanie BonneTrauma and Surgical Critical Care, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6279-1539
Samir M FakhryCenter for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Research, HCA Healthcare, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As acute care surgery (ACS) continues to expand its clinical scope surgeons are increasingly asked to navigate complex documentation and reimbursement systems. Despite their central role in trauma, emergency general surgery, and critical care, most surgeons receive limited formal training in coding and billing. To address this gap, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma convened an expert panel,

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PMID41948137
PMCPMC13052537

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