Abstract:IntroductionDuring the pandemic, many surveys studied people’s attitude to COVID-19. However, less information is available about the peculiarities of such attitude of the most vulnerable groups including chronic somatic patients who are in need of operative treatment.ObjectivesTo identify the specificity of preoperative cardiac surgery patients’ attitudes toward COVID-19 as compared to that of healthy people.MethodsWe used the Attitudes towards COVID-19 questionnaire (Nikolaev E.) to survey 60 preoperative ca… Show more
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