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Table 2 Overview of differences in estimated survival time, hospital length of stay (LOS) and progression to adjuvant chemotherapy for the studied outcomes. Hospital LOS is reported as medians [interquartile range, IQR]

From: Perioperative factors associated with survival following surgery for pancreatic cancer – a nationwide analysis of 473 cases from Denmark.

 

Perioperative transfusions

p-value

Anesthesia technique

p-value

Analgesia technique

p-

value

Survival time* (months)

Yes

No

 

TIVA

IV + Inhalation

 

Epidural

No epidural

 

12

66.7%

82.5%

NA

72.4%

82.8%

NA

81.8%

71.7%

NA

24

46.6%

60.9%

NA

51.5%

63.5%

NA

58.7%

56.5%

NA

48

23.9%

34.1%

NA

21.5%

39.6%

NA

34.9%

24.1%

NA

72

8.8%

28.0%

NA

19.9%

27.3%

NA

27.0%

17.0%

NA

Hospital length of stay (days)

11[6–20]

10[7–18]

0.512

10[7–19]

12[6–23]

0.917

10[7–18]

10[6–17]

0.818

Progression to adjuvant chemotherapy (n,%)

61(72.6)

309(65.3)

0.204

216(79.1)

154(90.5)

0.525

290(77.7)

80(80.8)

0.603

  1. Note: * Kaplan-Meier estimates. Statistical analyses of differences in survival times were performed as Cox-regressions (see Tables 3 and 4).