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What is the safety of nonemergent operative procedures performed at night?
Turrentine FE, Wang H, Young JS, et al. What is the safety of nonemergent operative procedures performed at night? A study of 10,426 operations at an academic tertiary care hospital using the American College of Surgeons national surgical quality program improvement database. J Trauma. 2010;69(2):313-9. doi:10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e49291.
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October 27, 2010
Turrentine FE, Wang H, Young JS, et al. J Trauma. 2010;69(2):313-9.
This large study found that surgical procedures performed at night in an academic tertiary care hospital were not associated with increased complication risks, despite prior literature that has raised concern over the safety of care delivered at night.
