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Table 3 Overall SWALIS patient population

From: A model to prioritize access to elective surgery on the basis of clinical urgency and waiting time

 

Urgency-related Groups (URGs)

 

A1 (N = 192, 7.9%)

A2 (N = 897, 37.3%)

B (N = 857, 36.6%)

C (N = 425, 17.7%)

D (N = 35, 1.4%)

Total (N = 2406, 100%)

Admission

      

Day surgery

57

183

121

221

15

597 (24.8%)

Ordinary

135

714

736

204

20

1,809 (75.2%)

Neoplasms

      

Malignancy

99

270

18

3

-

390 (16.2%)

Benign or uncertain

15

117

64

11

-

207 (8.6%)

Non neoplasms

78

510

775

411

35

1,809 (75.2%)

Surgical procedures

      

Abdominal wall and hernias

11

70

90

153

3

327 (13.6%)

Breast

12

130

18

6

-

166 (6.9%)

Chest

5

3

2

-

-

10 (0.4%)

Digestive visceral

46

93

56

11

5

211 (8.8%)

Endocrine

25

349

515

155

12

1,056 (43.9%)

Gynecologic

1

8

13

2

-

24 (0.9%)

Hepatobileopancreatic

18

47

107

9

2

183 (7.6%)

Spleen and lymphatics

15

100

2

1

-

118 (4.9%)

Skin

35

28

15

25

2

105 (4.4%)

Urology and andrology

4

12

9

5

-

30 (1.2%)

Vascular

4

33

20

55

11

123 (5.1%)

Other

16

24

10

3

-

53 (2.2%)

AGE

61.6 ± 17.5

56.9 ± 17.1

56.6 ± 15.4

55.1 ± 14.6

59.6 ± 16

56.9 ± 16.2

(median; 95% CI)

(65; from 59.1 to 64.1)

(59; from 55.7 to 58)

(59; from 55.5 to 57.6)

(57; from 53.7 to 56.5)

(64; from 54.1 to 65.1)

(59; from 56.2 to 57.5)

SEX

      

F

108

612

574

210

25

1,529 (63.5%)

M

84

285

283

215

10

877 (36.4%)

Expected operating time

      

Undefined procedure

14

195

84

128

5

426 (17.7%)

< 1 h

52

128

145

63

9

397 (16.5%)

Between 1 h and 3 h

118

551

610

229

21

1,529 (63.5%)

> 3 h

8

23

18

5

-

54 (2.2%)

  1. CI: Confidence interval. SWALIS database was queried: table shows frequency analysis of distribution of the overall population among different URGs.