Comparison of COVID-19 Rates Among In-Person and Virtual Attendees of a National Surgical Society Meeting in the US

Casey M Silver; Rachel H Joung; Melanie S Morris; Kasper S Wang; Amir A Ghaferi; Karl Y Bilimoria; Callisia N Clarke

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.30300

Comparison of COVID-19 Rates Among In-Person and Virtual Attendees of a National Surgical Society Meeting in the US

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Sep 1;5(9):e2230300. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.30300.

Authors

Casey M Silver¹, Rachel H Joung¹, Melanie S Morris², Kasper S Wang³, Amir A Ghaferi⁴, Karl Y Bilimoria¹, Callisia N Clarke⁵

Affiliations

¹ Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
² Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
³ Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
⁴ Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁵ Division of Oncology, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Abstract

This survey study compares the COVID-19 case rates among in-person and virtual attendees of a large surgical society meeting held in the US during the Omicron variant surge.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Societies