Alcohol consumption is a significant contributor to adverse outcomes in elective surgery, according to a new study from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Researchers studied more than 300,000 discharge records from the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database for elective adult admissions.
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