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. 2021 Jun 11;127(2):205–214. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.05.018

Table 2.

Risk of in-hospital mortality stratified by anatomical location of primary procedure. Data presented as n (%). ∗Numbers suppressed to maintain patient anonymity. Risk of in-hospital mortality stratified by surgical specialty. Organ donation removed given low numbers. GI; gastrointestinal; HPB, hepatopancreatobiliary; LGU, lower genitourinary; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; UGU, upper genitourinary.

SARS-CoV-2 infection
No SARS-CoV-2 infection
n In-hospital death n In-hospital death
Bone 3417 815 (23.9%) 132 180 1909 (1.4%)
Breast 43 ∗ (%∗) 56 450 12 (0.0%)
Cardiac 2374 313 (13.2%) 153 894 2609 (1.7%)
Cerebrovascular 116 21 (18.1%) 4769 211 (4.4%)
Ear 56 10 (17.9%) 27 756 28 (0.1%)
Endocrine 46 ∗ (%∗) 14 778 32 (0.2%)
Female LGU 48 ∗ (%∗) 24 587 19 (0.1%)
Female UGU 348 ∗ (%∗) 128 201 51 (0.0%)
HPB 752 120 (16.0%) 74 445 723 (1.0%)
Joint 3067 755 (24.6%) 196 034 1860 (0.9%)
Lower GI 2393 422 (17.6%) 227 230 2369 (1.0%)
Major vessel 457 112 (24.5%) 19 330 819 (4.2%)
Male GU 126 19 (15.1%) 33 521 68 (0.2%)
Muscle 157 26 (16.6%) 56 427 84 (0.1%)
Nasal 181 36 (19.9%) 48 691 106 (0.2%)
Neurological 1675 436 (26.0%) 123 866 2654 (2.1%)
Obstetrics 2489 ∗ (%∗) 215 432 11 (0.0%)
Ocular 133 ∗ (%∗) 376 152 40 (0.0%)
Oral 130 19 (14.6%) 83 209 71 (0.1%)
Orthopaedics 30 ∗ (%∗) 13 823 11 (0.1%)
Other 395 111 (28.1%) 32 119 564 (1.8%)
Pharynx 45 9 (20.0%) 15 182 48 (0.3%)
Skin 1475 325 (22.0%) 233 798 1059 (0.5%)
Skull and spine 335 39 (11.6%) 62 216 279 (0.4%)
Thoracic 4722 1503 (31.8%) 20 185 1122 (5.6%)
Upper GI 999 258 (25.8%) 33 128 1228 (3.7%)
Urological 978 208 (21.3%) 165 758 816 (0.5%)
Vascular 1790 562 (31.4%) 65 040 1408 (2.2%)