DALLAS—During the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, hospital-acquired infections occurred more frequently in patients treated for acute appendicitis at academic medical centers than those seen at nonacademic hospitals, according to new research presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Surgical Infection Society.
In the early months of the pandemic, Brett Tracy, MD, an assistant professor of surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, in Columbus, and his