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Preoperative optimization in hernia surgery: are we really helping or are we just stalling?

Hernia · 2024 · PMC11249412 · PMID 38578363

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showed a trendp = 0.005actually significant
Notably, the smoking group showed a trend of higher wound morbidity and had a higher incidence of pneumonia (5.7% vs. 0.7%, p = 0.005).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported
17.6%, p = 0.167), though this did not reach statistical significance and those differences were driven mostly by surgical site occurrences (hematoma and seroma).

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