Outcome of surgical patients during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in US hospitals
Orestes Mavrothalassitis, Romain Pirracchio, Nicholas Fong, Daniel Lazzareschi, Anshuman Sharma, Michelle T Vaughn, Michael Mathis, Matthieu Legrand, Orestes Mavrothalassitis, Romain Pirracchio, Nicholas Fong, Daniel Lazzareschi, Anshuman Sharma, Michelle T Vaughn, Michael Mathis, Matthieu Legrand
No abstract availableKeywords: COVID-19; death; mortality; outcome; surgery; surgical volume.
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