Table 3.
Hospital admission and length of stay during one year prior to index (cholecystectomy) stay, n = 43072.
| Open cholecystectomy n = 11928 |
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy n = 31144 |
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| Admissions†, main diagnosis | Admissions n |
Days Mean |
Days (SD) |
Admissions n |
Days mean |
Days (SD) |
p-values |
| Heart-lung disease | 1451 | 10.5 | (16.2) | 1615 | 6.2 | (9.2) | < 0.001 |
| Gallbladder/bile duct disease | 3721 | 6.2 | (7.6) | 8264 | 4.0 | (4.5) | < 0.001 |
| Other diagnoses | 2427 | 7.9 | (16.1) | 4883 | 5.1 | (12.8) | < 0.001 |
†one patient may have several admissions with different and/or same diagnoses.