BIOLOGICS BEFORE SURGERY FOR IBD: ARE THEY ASSOCIATED WITH POST-OPERATIVE INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS? RESULTS FROM THE NATIONAL SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE COLLABORATIVE IN >1500 PATIENTS

We aimed to utilize the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Collaborative, which includes disease-specific variables, to assess the association between preoperative biologic exposure and post-operative infectious complications in the largest cohort reported to date.

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