Table 2 –
Bivariate comparisons of cohort demographics for any complication within a year of gastrostomy tube (GT) surgery.
| Demographics | No complication |
Complication |
P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
N = 51 (34%) |
N = 101 (66%) |
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| N | (%) | N | (%) | ||
| Demographics | |||||
| Female sex | 24 | 47.1 | 49 | 48.5 | 0.9 |
| White race | 12 | 23.5 | 20 | 19.8 | 0.6 |
| Hispanic ethnicity | 32 | 62.8 | 66 | 65.4 | 0.8 |
| Public insurance | 34 | 66.7 | 78 | 77.2 | 0.2 |
| Syndrome or chromosomal abnormalities | 27 | 52.9 | 54 | 53.5 | 1.0 |
| Median | IQR | Median | IQR | ||
| Gestational age, weeks | 37.0 | 36.0-39.0 | 38.0 | 36.0-38.0 | 0.9 |
| Age (days) at first oral attempt | 23.0 | 3.0-45.0 | 16.0 | 2.0-37.0 | 0.2 |
| Cardiac operative variables | |||||
| Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during heart surgery | 44 | 86.3 | 89 | 88.1 | 0.7 |
| CPB time, minutes (mean SD) | 67.7 | 47.3 | 66.5 | 43.9 | 0.8 |
| GT operative variables | |||||
| Indication for GT - poor oral intake | 41 | 80.4 | 70 | 69.3 | 0.1 |
| GT surgery type- open | 16 | 31.4 | 39 | 38.6 | 0.6 |
| Median | IQR | Median | IQR | ||
| Age (days) at GT placement | 85.0 | 51.0-166.0 | 80.0 | 49.0-126.0 | 0.9 |
| Total percent of goal oral feeding tolerated before GT | 0.0 | 0.0-11.6 | 0.0 | 0.0-8.0 | 0.6 |
| Outpatient variables | |||||
| GT use at 1-y | 35 | 68.6 | 74 | 73.3 | 0.9 |