Table 3.
Overall SWALIS patient population
| 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%) |
CI: Confidence interval. SWALIS database was queried: table shows frequency analysis of distribution of the overall population among different URGs.