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Table 1 Baseline patient characteristics

From: In-hospital costs of an admission for adhesive small bowel obstruction

 

Conservative treatment (n = 20)

Operative treatment (n = 19)

P-value

Age

63.6 ± 15.7

63.4 ± 14.6

0.962

Female

12 (60.0 %)

14 (73.7 %)

0.365

Previous abdominal operationsa

2 (IQR 2-3)

1 (IQR 1-3)

0.111

Charlson Score

3.3 ± 2.4

3.6 ± 1.7

0.568

ASA score

 - Class 2

17 (85.0 %)

16 (84.2 %)

0.946

 - Class 3

3 (15.0 %)

3 (15.8 %)

Origin

 - Home

19 (95.0 %)

19 (100.0 %)

0.336

 - Nursing home

1 (5.0 %)

0 (0.0 %)

  1. Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation or N (percentage)
  2. a median + inter quartile range