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Course: Postoperative In-Hospital Morbidity and Mortality of Patients With COVID-19 Infection Compared With Patients Without COVID-19 Infection

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2021-04-12

Several small studies have suggested that patients with positive test results for COVID-19 infection may experience worse perioperative outcomes and increased mortality after surgery.- However, those studies were underpowered and lacked generalizability and comparative cohorts.- This study used data from a national database to compare the clinical outcomes of surgical patients testing positive for COVID-19 infection with those of a matched sample of surgical patients testing negative for COVID-19 infection. Elucidating the comparative surgical risk profiles of patients with and without COVID-19 infection would help health care systems to improve preoperative guidelines and clinicians to better inform patients in shared medical decision making before surgery.


Educational Objective
To identify the key insights or developments described in this article


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