Table 4.
Risk factors for composite COVID-specific postoperative complication (pneumonia, acute thromboembolic event, cardiac injury, 30-day readmission) in patients recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection
| Model A1 | Model B2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds ratio (95% CI) | p | Odds ratio (95% CI) | p | |
| SARS-CoV-2 inpatient admission | 7.35 (1.58–34.28) | 0.01 | 6.39 (1.45–29.14) | 0.01 |
| Age | 0.99 (0.94–1.05) | 0.79 | – | – |
| Gender (M) | 0.82 (0.24–2.79) | 0.75 | – | – |
| Charlson index | 0.94 (0.82–1.08) | 0.38 | – | – |
| Weeks from infection | 0.71 (0.40-1.26) | 0.25 | – | – |
| Surgery classification | ||||
| Same day | Ref | Ref | ||
| Extended recovery | 2.05 (0.42–10.02) | 0.37 | ||
| Inpatient | 4.04 (1.01–16.21) | 0.05 | 3.13 (0.99–9.9) | 0.05 |
1Model A: Demographic and surgical variables included to further explore the association between inpatient surgical stay and composite outcome
2Model B: Includes only significant variables from Model A and transforms surgical classification into binary variable