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Table 1 Participant Characteristics

From: Postoperative delirium prediction using machine learning models and preoperative electronic health record data

Variable

No Delirium

(n = 23,558)

Delirium

(n = 1327)

p-value

% Missing

Age (mean (SD))

59.24 (15.29)

67.41 (15.02)

< 0.001

0

Sex (%)

   

0

 Male

11,607 (49.3)

669 (50.4)

0.033

 

ASA Class (%)

  

0.7

 1

1196 (5.1)

6 (0.5)

< 0.001

 

 2

11,522 (49.2)

319 (24.3)

< 0.001

 

 3

9948 (42.5)

879 (67.0)

< 0.001

 

 4

728 (3.1)

105 (8.0)

< 0.001

 

Emergent Case (%)

2220 (9.4)

353 (26.6)

< 0.001

0

Inpatient (%)

10,613 (45.1)

930 (70.1)

< 0.001

0

Surgical Service (%)a

  

0

 Neurological Surgery

3391 (14.4)

420 (31.7)

< 0.001

 

 Orthopedics Surgery

5911 (25.1)

278 (20.9)

< 0.001

 

 General Surgery

4975 (21.1)

239 (18.0)

0.007

 

 Vascular Surgery

1081 (4.6)

127 (9.6)

< 0.001

 

 Genito-Urologic Surgery

2356 (10.0)

47 (3.5)

< 0.001

 

 Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

992 (4.2)

33 (2.5)

0.002

 

 Transplant Surgery

1122 (4.8)

26 (2.0)

< 0.001

 

 Gynecologic Oncology

648 (2.8)

22 (1.7)

0.02

 

 Thoracic Surgery

540 (2.3)

16 (1.2)

0.01

 

Primary Language (%)b

  

0

 English

21,513 (91.3)

1195 (90.1)

0.124

 

 Spanish

992 (4.2)

45 (3.4)

0.166

 

 Chinese - Cantonese

315 (1.3)

36 (2.7)

< 0.001

 

Unable to spell WORLD backwards (%)

1367 (5.8)

259 (19.5)

< 0.001

0

Not oriented to place (%)

468 (2.0)

134 (10.1)

< 0.001

0

History of Diabetes (%)

4537 (19.3)

385 (29.0)

< 0.001

0

History of Chronic Kidney Disease (%)

2269 (9.6)

155 (11.7)

0.016

0

History of Heart Failure (%)

987 (4.2)

109 (8.2)

< 0.001

0

Smoking History (%)

6241 (26.5)

522 (39.3)

< 0.001

0

  1. Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists
  2. aNine surgical services with the highest patient volume (out of 19 total services) are listed
  3. bThree language categories with the largest number of patients (out of 8 total categories) are listed