Table 5.

Perioperative complications in patients with and without previous COVID-19 tests

	Positive preoperative COVID-19 test*	Negative preoperative COVID-19 test†	p value
Intraoperative complications	5/128 (3.9%)	99/3275 (3.0%)	.57
Postoperative complications (before discharge)	5/128 (3.9%)	201/3275 (6.1%)	.30
Postoperative complications (after discharge)	30/128 (23.4%)	1031/3275 (31.5%)	.05

COVID-19 = coronavirus disease.

^⁎Positive preoperative COVID-19 tests included those who had a positive test result remote from surgery or those who had a positive test result preoperatively per institutional testing protocols.

^†Negative preoperative COVID-19 tests include patients who had a negative test result or had pending or inconclusive tests.