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Our system uses a hub and spoke approach to provide surgical care for our rural population. Patients access care anywhere in the system but are transferred centrally for surgical care. We sought to determine if surgical outcome differed depending on where initial care occurred. We chose acute appendicitis (AA) to investigate our care model.We identified patients admitted with the diagnosis of AA....