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SUBMITTER: Mahmud N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6675652 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mahmud Nadim N Fricker Zachary Z Serper Marina M Kaplan David E DE Rothstein Kenneth D KD Goldberg David S DS
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 20190617 8
<h4>Background</h4>Patients with cirrhosis have increased peri-operative mortality risk relative to non-cirrhotic patients, however, the impact of surgical procedure category on this risk is poorly understood.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a retrospective cohort study of cirrhosis surgery admissions using the National Inpatient Sample between 2012 and 2014 to estimate the adjusted odds of in-hospital mortality by surgical procedure category.<h4>Results</h4>In-hospital mortality differed by surgica ...[more]