A survey of surgeons’ perception and awareness of intraoperative time utilization

Table 1 Surgical phases and factors affecting a surgical procedure in time

	r	p	r²
Opening of the abdomen – Closure of the abdomen	0.301	0.184	0.09
Dissection/resection – Closure of the abdomen	0.464	0.039*	0.21
Dissection/resection – Hand-sewn intestinal anastomosis + Closure of the abdomen	0.128	0.602	0.17
Hand-sewn intestinal anastomosis – closure of the abdomen	0.536	0.018*	0.29
BMI – Hand-sewn intestinal anastomosis + Closure of the abdomen	0.284	0.238	0.81
BMI – total time for surgical procedure	0.202	0.380	0.04
Age – total time for surgical procedure	0.138	0.551	0.20

Actual time needed to perform specified surgical phases in 21 elective, non-advanced colon cancer resections explored with correlation analysis between surgical phases and also between those phases and patient specific factors.
*Correlation was considered significant at the 0.05 level.

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