Changes in elective and urgent surgery among TRICARE beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic

AM Crawford, HM Lightsey Iv, GX Xiong, J Ye… - Military …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background COVID-19 is known to have altered the capacity to perform surgical procedures
in numerous health care settings. The impact of this change within the direct and private …

Unequal rates of postoperative complications in relatively healthy bariatric surgical patients of white and black race

OO Nafiu, C Mpody, MP Michalsky, JD Tobias - Surgery for Obesity and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Racial disparities in postsurgical complications are often presumed to be due to
a higher preoperative co-morbidity burden among patients of black race, although being …