Table 1 Characteristics of trial patients and non-randomised patients
From: Non-randomised patients in a cholecystectomy trial: characteristics, procedures, and outcomes
Women | Age, years | Acute operation | Acute cholecystitis | Pancreatitis | Jaundice | Malignancy | Associated diseases | ASA III+IV | |||||||||||
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n | n | % | Mean | SD | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Trial patients | 724 | 501 | 69.2 | 50.6 | 15.6 | 106 | 14.6 | 72 | 8.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154 | 21.3 | 28 | 3.9 | |||
Non-randomised patients | 993 | 657 | 66.2 | 56.5 | 19.1 | 516 | 52.0 | 405 | 40.8 | 53 | 5.4 | 140 | 14.1 | 27 | 2.7 | 336 | 33.8 | 99 | 14.1 |
p = 0.18 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | |||||||||||