Postoperative fever after liver resection: Incidence, risk factors, and characteristics associated with febrile infectious complication.

PLoS One · 2022 · PMC8758093 · PMID 35025947

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.058so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Patients with multiple fever spikes also tended to have increased incidence of infectious complications than those with a single fever spike, but the difference did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.058).

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borderline significanceno p-value reported

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