TABLE 2.
Local incidence of major postoperative complications. Intervention (After) and control (Before) groups are shown, split based on study site. Odds ratio, 95% confidence intervals and P-values obtained via Pearson’s χ2 test for the entire control and intervention groups are presented
| Site | 30-day mortality (%) | Blood loss over 1000 mL (%) | Reoperation (%) | Surgical infection (%) | Other (%) | Any complication (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | |
| 1 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 0 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 0 | 9.2 | 1.3 |
| 2 | 2.1 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | 7.1 | 1.4 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 6.9 | 3.7 |
| 4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 7.1 | 2.2 |
| 5 | 1.2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 8.8 | 4.5 |
| 6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 5.7 | 3.2 |
| Total | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 6.9 | 2.4 |
| OR [95% CI] P-value |
0.4 [0.1–0.9] 0.03 | 0.5 [0.2–1.5] 0.1 | 0.3 [0.1–0.8] 0.01 | 0.3 [0.1–0.8] 0.01 | 0.6 [0.2–1.4] 0.2 | 0.3 [0.2–0.5] < 0.001 | ||||||