Table 2.
Variation in hospital-level laparoscopy and outcome rates (N = 276 hospitals)
| Laparoscopy rate (%) | Intra-operative morbidity rate | Post-operative morbidity rate | In-hospital mortality rate | Average length of stay (days) | |||||
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| Observed | Risk standardized | Observed | Risk standardized | Observed | Risk standardized | Observed | Risk standardized | ||
| Max | 100.0% | 23.1% | 8.6% | 83.3% | 53.4% | 16.7% | 42.0% | 20.7 | 10.3 |
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| 75th percentile | 66.7% | 5.3% | 3.6% | 35.7% | 32.2% | 0.0% | 0.8% | 8.1 | 7.5 |
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| 50th percentile (Median) | 52.0% | 0.0% | 2.7% | 25.8% | 27.8% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 6.7 | 7.0 |
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| 25th percentile | 31.5% | 0.0% | 2.5% | 18.8% | 24.3% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 5.9 | 6.6 |
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| Minimum | 3.8% | 0.0% | 1.8% | 0.0% | 16.4% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 3.8 | 4.9 |