Ramsay, GeorgeScott, NeilBekheit, MohamedWatson, AngusJansen, J. J.Wohlgemut, Jared2022-06-222022-06-222022-04-25Ramsay, G, Scott, N, Bekheit, M, Watson, A, Jansen, J J & Wohlgemut, J 2022, 'Emergency General Surgery : Impact of Distance and Rurality on Mortality', BJS Open, vol. 6, no. 2, zrac032. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrac0322474-9842ORCID: /0000-0002-8067-9660/work/114809568ORCID: /0000-0003-1556-0097/work/165363540https://hdl.handle.net/2164/18735Funding This work was made possible by a grant from NHS Grampian and NHS Highlands Endowment Funding. No funding was received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH); Wellcome Trust; or Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge the support of the eDRIS Team (Public Health Scotland) for their involvement in obtaining approvals, provisioning, and linking data, and the use of the secure analytical platform within the National Safe Haven. We also acknowledge P. Murchie for support with contextualizing the work within the rural medical practitioner literature.10420709engcomorbidityinpatientslaparotomyscotlanddiagnosismortalitytransfer techniqueemergency surgical procedureGeneral SurgeryLower Gastrointestinal SurgeryUpper Gastrointestinal SurgeryAcute Care SurgeryR MedicineWellcome TrustSupplementary DataRJournal article10.1093/bjsopen/zrac03262