Table 3.

Outcome of patients cleared for surgery without additional examinations evaluated using the digital guideline support approach compared with patients additionally cleared using the standard approach (exploratory analysis). Values are numbers of patients (%) or medians (interquartile range). For details, see Supplementary Tables S3 and S4. Statistical power was <0.4 in all analysed outcomes. ∗Two of the 37 patients were not cleared with the standard approach. ^†The 35 patients also cleared with the digital guideline support approach are not listed here.

Outcome	Digital guideline support (n=37)∗	Standard (n=116)†	P-value
Required surgical re-intervention	4 (10.8)	26 (22.4)	0.1
ICU admission	9 (24.3)	36 (31.0)	0.4
Need for artificial ventilation	2 (5.4)	5 (4.3)	0.7
Length of ICU stay (days)	1 (1–1)	1 (1–2)	0.4
Hospital length of stay (days)	11 (6–18)	13 (8–21)	0.2
Discharged home	21 (56.8)	76 (65.5)	0.3
Follow-up treatment/rehabilitation	16 (43.2)	53 (45.7)	0.2
In-hospital mortality	0 (0.0)	2 (1.7)	0.9