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Specific postoperative complications are associated with increased healthcare usage and higher mortality over two years.
Postoperative complications are associated with long-term consequences including increased healthcare usage and mortality over 2 years.
In this editorial, we discuss a large observational study demonstrating increased healthcare usage and higher mortality over 2 yr in patients who experienced specific postoperative complications. These findings are in keeping with the existing literature and draw into focus the need for ongoing work to understand and communicate these long-term consequences to patients.
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Jackson et al. (2023) studied this question. Specific postoperative complications are associated with increased healthcare usage and higher mortality over two years.
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