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Table 3 Race-stratified 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

 

Pre-ERP

ERP

Overall (N = 314)

Black (n = 110)

White (n = 193)

p

Overall (N = 103)

Black (n = 36)

White (n = 63)

p

Age, mean (SD)

62.11 (9.82)

60.27 (9.25)

63.09 (10.2)

0.017

62.96 (9.34)

61.83 (8.72)

64.14 (9.45)

0.232

BMI, mean (SD)

27.69 (5.34)

27.05 (5.08)

28.09 (5.49)

0.104

28.61 (5.83)

29.53 (7.11)

27.95 (4.95)

0.196

Sex

   

0.689

   

0.361

 Female

6 (1.9)

3 (2.7)

3 (1.6)

 

6 (5.8)

3 (8.3)

2 (3.2)

 

 Male

308 (98.1)

107 (97.3)

190 (98.4)

 

96 (93.2)

33 (91.7)

60 (95.2)

 

Smoker

140 (44.6)

51 (46.4)

83 (43.0)

0.656

35 (34.0)

11 (30.6)

23 (36.5)

0.670

Hypertension

194 (64.4)

78 (40.0)

117 (60.0)

0.094

66 (66.7)

26 (39.4)

40 (60.6)

0.528

Diabetes

71 (22.6)

27 (24.5)

42 (21.8)

0.847

24 (23.3)

11 (30.6)

12 (19.0)

0.430

ASA class

   

0.242

   

0.326

 1

2 (0.6)

1 (0.9)

1 (0.5)

 

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

 

 2

15 (4.8)

2 (1.8)

13 (6.7)

 

13 (12.6)

5 (13.9)

6 (9.5)

 

 3

274 (87.2)

101 (91.8)

165 (85.5)

 

86 (83.5)

31 (86.1)

53 (84.1)

 

 4

23 (7.3)

6 (5.5)

14 (7.3)

 

4 (3.9)

0 (0.0)

4 (6.3)

 

Operative level

 

 Procedure

   

0.764

   

0.895

  Partial colectomy

141 (46.5)

51 (36.2)

90 (63.8)

 

67 (69.8)

25 (37.3)

42 (62.7)

 

  Rectal

25 (8.3)

8 (32.0)

17 (68.0)

 

14 (14.6)

5 (35.7)

9 (64.3)

 

  Small Bowel

134 (44.2)

49 (36.6)

85 (63.4)

 

14 (14.6)

4 (28.6)

10 (71.4)

 

  TAC/TPC

3 (1.0)

2 (66.7)

1 (33.3)

 

1 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (100.0)

 
  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