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Outcomes for Surgical Care in the Elderly

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Outcomes in geriatric trauma and surgery have received extensive attention in recent peer-reviewed literature. As noted by Maxwell in the previous edition of this chapter [1], there were more than 80 published studies between 1980 and 2014, and in 2015 alone, a search of the Google Scholar web site lists more than 4000 references under the search term “outcomes in geriatric trauma.”

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Grossman, M.D. (2017). Outcomes for Surgical Care in the Elderly. In: Luchette, F., Yelon, J. (eds) Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48687-1_25

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