Short-term results in a population based study indicate advantage for minimally invasive rectal cancer surgery versus open

Table 5 Secondary outcome for patients who were diagnosed with rectal cancer in Sweden 2012–2018 and underwent surgical resection MIS vs OPEN. Unadjusted and adjusted results including unweighted and weighted linear regression

	MIS	OPEN	Unadjusted		Unweighted Regression		Weighted Regression
	N = 3,601	N = 5,863	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Length of hospital stay in days, median (IQR)	7 (4.0, 10.0)	9 (5.0, 13.0)	-0.132 (-0.144, -0.121)	< 0.001	-0.103 (-0.116, -0.090)	< 0.001	-0.103 (-0.114, -0.092)	< 0.001
missing	29 (0.8)	34 (0.6)

Data expressed as median and interquartile range (IQR) displayed within brackets

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