Postoperative mortality among surgical patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Conclusion: The unexpected high postoperative mortality rate in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients of 20% in the global literature mandates further scrutiny in assuring appropriate surgical indications and perioperative surgical safety measures in this vulnerable cohort of patients. Registration: This systematic review and meta-analysis was registered in Prospero's international prospective register of systematic reviews (CRD42020203362) on August 10, 2020. PMID: 33062056 [PubMed]

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Source: Patient Safety in Surgery - October 20, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Abate SM, Mantefardo B, Basu B Tags: Patient Saf Surg Source Type: research