Why the study?
Does postoperative in-hospital morbidity reduce long-term patient survival?
Does postoperative in-hospital morbidity reduce long-term patient survival?
Postoperative in-hospital morbidity, particularly infectious complications, negatively impacts long-term patient survival.
Clinicians should prioritize preventing postoperative complications to improve long-term survival; confirms stronger adverse effect of infectious morbidity.
Postoperative complications have a negative effect on long-term survival. This relationship appears to be stronger for infectious complications.
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