id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-314349-rhm1ii3d Kraft, Miquel Incidence, features, outcome and impact on health system of de-novo abdominal surgical diseases in patients admitted with COVID-19 2020-08-28 .txt text/plain 2709 155 48 Summary Background Data Gastrointestinal involvement has been described in COVID-19; however, no clear figures of incidence, epidemiology and economic impact exist for de-novo surgical diseases in hospitalized patients Methods This is a prospective study including all patients admitted with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 rT-PCR, between 1 March and 15 May 2020 at two Tertiary Hospitals. The overall median length of stay(LOS) of patients admitted to ICU was longer in those requiring surgical consultation compared with those who did not (51.5 vs 25 days,p=0.0042). Patients requiring surgical consultation and treatment for de-novo surgical disease had longer median ICU-LOS (31.5 vs 12 days, p=0.0004). In this study, the overall incidence of de-novo surgical disease in hospitalized patients for COVID-19 was 0.32% in two tertiary hospitals during the peak phase of the pandemic, which increased to 1.9% when only considering patients already admitted in ICU for COVID-19. ./cache/cord-314349-rhm1ii3d.txt ./txt/cord-314349-rhm1ii3d.txt