Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
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Review Meta Analysis
Wound healing and infection in surgery. The clinical impact of smoking and smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
To clarify the evidence on smoking and postoperative healing complications across surgical specialties and to determine the impact of perioperative smoking cessation intervention. ⋯ Postoperative healing complications occur significantly more often in smokers compared with nonsmokers and in former smokers compared with those who never smoked. Perioperative smoking cessation intervention reduces surgical site infections, but not other healing complications.