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Table 1 Patient and procedure characteristics

From: Patients undergoing colorectal surgery at a Veterans Affairs Hospital do not experience racial disparity in length of stay either before or after implementing an enhanced recovery pathway

 

Overall (N = 417)

Pre-ERP (n = 314)

ERP (n = 103)

p

Patient level

 Age, mean (SD)

62.32 (9.7)

62.11 (9.82)

62.96 (9.34)

0.440

 BMI, mean (SD)

27.92 (5.5)

27.69 (5.34)

28.61 (5.83)

0.140

 Sex

0.080

  Female

12 (2.9)

6 (1.9)

6 (5.8)

 

  Male

404 (97.1)

308 (98.1)

96 (93.2)

 

 Smoker

175 (42.0)

140 (44.6)

35 (34.0)

0.076

 Hypertension

 

194 (64.4)

66 (66.7)

0.767

 Diabetes

95 (22.8)

71 (22.6)

24 (23.3)

0.524

 ASA Class

0.025

  1

2 (0.2)

2 (0.6)

0 (0.0)

 

  2

28 (6.7)

15 (4.8)

13 (12.6)

 

  3

360 (86.3)

274 (87.2)

86 (83.5)

 

  4

27 (6.5)

23 (7.3)

4 (3.9)

 

Operative level

 Procedure

0.001

  Partial colectomy

210 (52.1)

141 (46.5)

67 (69.8)

 

  Rectal

40 (9.9)

25 (8.3)

14 (14.6)

 

  Small Bowel

148 (36.7)

134 (44.2)

14 (14.6)

 

  TAC/TPC

5 (1.2)

3 (1.0)

1 (1.0)

 
  1. All data represented as n (column %) unless otherwise specified
  2. ASA Class, American Society of Anesthesiologist Class; BMI, body mass index; TAC/TPC, total abdominal colectomy/total proctocolectomy
  3. “Overall” includes non-black, non-white patients and those whose race is unknown