Table 1: Comparison of demographics and outcomes for admissions with regional block (Block) and those without regional block (NO-Block) Data are presented as n, % or mean ± standard deviation.
|
|
Block (n = 3,646) |
NO-Block (n = 239,159) |
p |
|
Age (y) |
65.5 (59, 72) |
67 (60, 73) |
< 0.001 |
|
Female (n, %) |
817 (22.4%) |
53,814 (22.5%) |
1.000 |
|
Race/Ethnicity (n, %) |
< 0.001 |
||
|
Asian |
127 (3.5%) |
9,541 (4.0%) |
|
|
Black |
337 (9.2%) |
19,465 (8.1%) |
|
|
Hispanic |
222 (6.1%) |
17,716 (7.4%) |
|
|
Other |
252 (6.9%) |
17,882 (7.5%) |
|
|
Unknown |
13 (0.4%) |
2,433 (1.0%) |
|
|
White |
2,865 (78.6%) |
184,720 (77.2%) |
|
|
LOS (d) |
9.7 ± 7.8 |
9.6 ± 7.6 |
0.510 |
|
Complications (n, %) |
450 (12.3%) |
24,680 (10.3%) |
< 0.001 |
|
Mortality (n, %) |
43 (1.2%) |
3,597 (1.5%) |
0.109 |
|
Cost ($) |
$31,194 ± 22,813 |
$31,516 ± 23,010 |
0.407 |
LOS: Length of Stay. Data from the Vizient Clinical Data Base used by permission of Vizient, Inc. All rights reserved.