Surgery for patients with diabetes is associated with longer hospital stay, more use
of healthcare resources and increased perioperative morbidity and mortality compared
to patients without diabetes [
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,
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]. This may – in part – be explained by suboptimal perioperative diabetes care.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 21, 2016
Accepted:
June 7,
2016
Received:
June 4,
2016
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