Whether patients undergo the more morbid and costly emergent rather than an elective type of surgery, may depend on many factors. Since tertiary prevention (preventing poor outcomes from emergency surgery) carries a much higher mortality than secondary prevention (preventing emergency surgery) or primary prevention (preventing the disease requiring surgery), the United States mortality might be reduced significantly, if emergency surgery could be avoided via high-quality primary prevention and non-surgical therapy or increasing elective surgery at the expense of emergency procedures, e.g., secondary prevention. The practice and study of acute care surgery then has the potential to broaden from a focus on the patient in the hospital emergency and operating rooms to the patient who no longer requires either, whose disease is treated or prevented in his/her/their community.
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