Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 300-307, August 2009

Access to emergency operative care: A comparative study between the Canadian and American health care systems

  • Susan A. Krajewski, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Susan A. Krajewski, MD, MPH, University of British Columbia, Department of Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, 3rd Floor, Jim Pattison Pavilion, #3100, 910 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4E3, Canada.
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  • S. Morad Hameed, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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  • Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Boston, MA
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  • Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Boston, MA

Accepted 6 April 2009. published online 29 June 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00234-7

doi:10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.005

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 300-307, August 2009