Cosmin Ioan Mohor

Submitted: 23 January 2026 You are already at the latest version Background: Assessing the national burden of chronic wounds is a complex data an-alytics challenge. Robust estimates in Eastern Europe are scarce, highlighting the need for computational methods to validate cases in large-scale health databases. Methods: We applied a large-scale data analytics approach to Romania’s National Inpatient Database (public hospitals, 2017–2022).

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1. Introduction Circumcision represents a surgical procedure involving taking away the foreskin wrapping the glans, and it represents one of the most common surgical procedures performed on pediatric patients [1,2]. The procedure is statistically associated with about a 1% rate of possible complications. The most common complications cited in the literature are bleeding, swelling, cosmetic deformities, and wound infection [3].