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Table 3 Delay in hospital admission (more than 24 hours after onset of symptom), APACHE II score, and POSSUM score (PS, OSS) were identified as prognostic factors of these patients on univariate analysis

From: Factors predicting mortality in emergency abdominal surgery in the elderly

 

Alive (n = 79)

Dead (n = 15)

P

Age (mean: 85.6)

≤85

41

10

 

>85

38

5

0.2219

Gender

Male

27

9

 

Female

52

6

0.0567

Comorbidity

negative

20

3

 

positive

59

12

0.4715

PS(ECOG)

Grade 0,1

28

2

 

Grade 2, 3, and 4

51

13

0.0786

Time from onset of symptoms to hospital admission (hour)

<24

51

4

 

≥24

28

11

0.0074** (Fisher’s exact test)

APACHE II (mean)

11.9

18.5

0.0002

POSSUM

PS (mean)

30.1

38.6

0.0001**

OSS (mean)

13.9

17.2

0.0408* (Mann-Whitney U-test)