From: Incidence and type of complications in non-operated patients at a surgical ward
 | Intervention Diagnostic | Organ Dysfunction | Infection | Hospital - provider | Miscellaneous | Drug | P-value |
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Number of complications | N = 61 (14%) | N = 86 (20%) | N = 50 (11%) | N = 196 (45%) | N = 35 (8%) | N = 9 (2%) | Â |
(Total N = 437) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Nr of patients * | N = 59 | N = 73 | N = 45 | N = 186 | N = 35 | N = 9 | Â |
(Total N = 364) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Gender: | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | ns |
Male | N = 25 (42%) | N = 37 (51%) | N = 22 (49%) | N = 105 (56%) | N = 19 (54%) | N = 5 (56%) | Â |
Female | N = 34 (58%) | N = 36 (49%) | N = 23 (51%) | N = 81 (44%) | N = 16 (46%) | N = 4 (44%) | Â |
Age: †| 67.8 ± 12.6 | 70.7 ± 13.6 | 63.0 ± 15.7 | 58.4 ± 20.6 | 54.6 ± 17.9 | 69.8 ± 5.6 | < 0.001 |
Diagnosis | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | < 0.001 |
(per patient) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
General | N = 2 (3%) | N = 13 (18%) | N = 11 (24%) | N = 47 (25%) | N = 12 (34%) | N = 3 (33%) | Â |
Traumatology | N = 0 (0%) | N = 18 (25%) | N = 13 (29%) | N = 44 (24%) | N = 7 (20%) | N = 1 (11%) | Â |
Vascular surgery | N = 52 (88%) | N = 29 (40%) | N = 6 (13%) | N = 61 (33%) | N = 6 (17%) | N = 4 (44%) | Â |
Gastro-intestinal surgery | N = 4 (7%) | N = 10 (14%) | N = 14 (31%) | N = 15 (8%) | N = 5 (14%) | N = 0 (0%) | Â |
Oncology | N = 1 (2%) | N = 3 (4%) | N = 1 (2%) | N = 19 (10%) | N = 5 (14%) | N = 1 (11%) | Â |
Hospital stay (days) ††| 4 (4-7) | 8 (4-18) | 9 (7-19) | 2 (2-4) | 2 (1-7) | 10 (3-19) | < 0.001 |