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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the study population

From: Lack of association between intraoperative handoff of care and postoperative complications: a retrospective observational study

 

Total

Attending Level Handoff

Complete Handoff

 

No Handoff

Handoff

p

No Handoff

Handoff

p

n (cases)

12111

9525 (78.7%)

2586 (21.3%)

 

10791 (89.1%)

1320 (10.9%)

 

Age (mean (sd))

55.83 (15.42)

55.74 (15.51)

56.20 (15.10)

0.177

55.70 (15.45)

56.97 (15.12)

0.005

Male Sex (n (%))

4526 (37.4)

3531 (37.1)

995 (38.5)

0.192

3974 (36.8)

552 (41.8)

< 0.001

ASA Class (n (%))

   

< 0.001

  

< 0.001

 1–2

4714 (38.9)

3847 (40.4)

867 (33.5)

 

4325 (40.1)

389 (29.5)

 

 3

6238 (51.5)

4808 (50.5)

1430 (55.3)

 

5466 (50.7)

772 (58.5)

 

 4–5

1159 (9.6)

870 (9.1)

289 (11.2)

 

1000 (9.3)

159 (12.0)

 

Case Length (mean (sd))

155.65 (124.48)

131.15 (91.62)

245.91 (176.94)

< 0.001

138.72 (99.69)

294.10 (198.59)

< 0.001

Evening Or Weekend Case (n (%))

504 (4.2)

422 (4.4)

82 (3.2)

0.004

452 (4.2)

52 (3.9)

0.715

Body Mass Index (mean (sd))

29.64 (9.12)

29.72 (9.08)

29.33 (9.24)

0.056

29.71 (8.95)

29.05 (10.37)

0.012

SurgicalSpecialty (n (%))

  

< 0.001

  

< 0.001

 ENT/OMFS

457 (3.8)

290 (3.0)

167 (6.5)

 

371 (3.4)

86 (6.5)

 

 Gastroenterology

6 (0.0)

6 (0.1)

0 (0.0)

 

6 (0.1)

0 (0.0)

 

 General/Oncology

6737 (55.6)

5328 (55.9)

1409 (54.5)

 

5961 (55.2)

776 (58.8)

 

 Neurosurgery

288 (2.4)

240 (2.5)

48 (1.9)

 

278 (2.6)

10 (0.8)

 

 Obstetrics/Gynecology

1307 (10.8)

961 (10.1)

346 (13.4)

 

1167 (10.8)

140 (10.6)

 

 Other

1943 (16.0)

1667 (17.5)

276 (10.7)

 

1833 (17.0)

110 (8.3)

 

 Thoracic/Pulmonary

135 (1.1)

119 (1.2)

16 (0.6)

 

125 (1.2)

10 (0.8)

 

 Urology

89 (0.7)

80 (0.8)

9 (0.3)

 

89 (0.8)

0 (0.0)

 

 Vascular

1149 (9.5)

834 (8.8)

315 (12.2)

 

961 (8.9)

188 (14.2)

 

Composite NSQIP Adverse Event

1774 (14.6)

1268 (13.3)

506 (19.6)

< 0.001

1471 (13.6)

303 (23.0)

< 0.001