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Survival and health care costs after inpatient elective surgery: comparison of patients with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is common among surgical patients, and patients with COPD have higher risk for complications and death within 30 days after surgery. We sought to describe the longer-term postoperative survival and costs of patients with COPD compared with tho...

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Autores principales: Sankar, Ashwin, Thorpe, Kevin, McIsaac, Daniel I., Luo, Jin, Wijeysundera, Duminda N., Gershon, Andrea S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CMA Impact Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9851642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36649951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.220733