Table 3.
Mortality and hospital length of stay, stratified by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection status and acuity of surgery. Data are presented as median (inter-quartile range) or n (%).
| No SARS-CoV-2 | SARS-CoV-2 infection |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any | Preoperative | Perioperative | Postoperative | ||
| All patients | |||||
| n | 2 638 201 | 28 777 | 7418 | 18 484 | 2875 |
| In-hospital death | 20 211 (0.8%) | 6153 (21.4%) | 1544 (20.8%) | 3755 (20.3%) | 854 (29.7%) |
| Length of hospital stay (days) | 0 (0–2) | 13 (4–26) | 9 (2–22) | 12 (4–25) | 23 (15–31) |
| Elective surgery | |||||
| n | 1 857 586 | 2412 | 809 | 1456 | 147 |
| In-hospital death | 1414 (0.1%) | 172 (7.1%) | 21 (2.6%) | 125 (8.6%) | 26 (17.7%) |
| Length of hospital stay (days) | 0 (0–1) | 4 (1–16) | 0 (0–3) | 7 (2–20) | 24 (14–33) |
| Emergency surgery | |||||
| n | 559 374 | 22 918 | 5543 | 14 721 | 2654 |
| In-hospital death | 18 060 (3.2%) | 5752 (25.1%) | 1414 (25.5%) | 3532 (24.0%) | 806 (30.4%) |
| Length of hospital stay (days) | 2 (1–7) | 15 (6–28) | 11 (4–24) | 15 (6–28) | 23 (15–31) |