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  "id": 18148551,
  "title": "Emergency surgery verification linked to lower death rates, shorter hospital stays",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/emergency-surgery-verification-linked-to-lower-death-rates-shorter",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-04T16:00:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-11-emergency-surgery-verification-linked-death.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Patients treated at hospitals that earned American College of Surgeons (ACS) Emergency General Surgery Verification demonstrated lower 30-day death rates and experienced shorter hospital stays after their hospitals earned verification, according to an analysis published in JAMA Surgery. The analysis included more than 20,000 patients who underwent emergency general surgery at 55 hospitals, five…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}