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No information is available with regard to the outcome of patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery in rural Australia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery in a 110\u2010bed rural surgical centre in South Australia over a 5 year period (January 2010\u2013December 2014) were included in the study. Patient data were retrieved using the hospital database and review of patient records.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 4396 general surgical emergency admissions was recorded. Emergency admissions without intervention, endoscopic intervention only, appendectomy, cholecystectomy or urological or gynaecological diagnoses were excluded from mortality analysis. 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