Table 3.
Adjusted Differences in Hospitalization Costs With Confidence Intervals and P Values by Patient Safety Indicators
| Risk-Adjusted Coefficient Estimate (95% CI) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Safety Indicator | Colectomy | Pulmonary Lobectomy | Rectal Resection | Pancreatic Resection | Esophagectomy | Pneumonectomy |
| Accidental puncture/laceration | 0.211 (0.193-0.229) | 0.195 (0.158-0.232) | 0.195 (0.161-0.230) | 0.153 (0.097-0.210) | 0.135 (0.043-0.226) | 0.185 (0.029-0.342) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | .004 | .021 |
| Anesthesia complications | −0.133 (−0.240-0.026) | 0.072 (−0.075-0.219) | −0.063 (−0.335-0.209) | |||
| P | .015 | .336 | .650 | |||
| Death among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications | 0.270 (0.236-0.304) | 0.538 (0.484-0.591) | 0.200 (0.109-0.292) | 0.282 (0.176-0.387) | 0.300 (0.184-0.416) | 0.453 (0.312-0.593) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Decubitus ulcer | 0.322 (0.289-0.355) | 0.489 (0.398-0.580) | 0.317 (0.238-0.396) | 0.335 (0.225-0.444) | 0.275 (0.127-0.422) | 0.600 (0.329-0.871) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Foreign body left in during procedure | 0.213 (0.008-0.417) | 0.195 (−0.080-0.470) | 0.251 (0.049-0.452) | |||
| P | .041 | .165 | .015 | |||
| Iatrogenic pneumothorax | 0.350 (0.273-0.426) | 0.031 (0.0107-0.051) | 0.253 (0.145-0.360) | 0.157 (−0.025-0.339) | ||
| P | <.001 | .003 | <.001 | .091 | ||
| Postoperative hemorrhage/hematoma | 0.454 (0.399-0.510) | 0.353 (0.218-0.488) | 0.411 (0.320-0.503) | 0.447 (0.353-0.540) | 0.190 (−0.198-0.578) | 0.248 (−0.0545-0.550) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | .337 | .108 |
| Postoperative hip fracture | 0.638 (0.444-0.833) | 0.412 (0.117-0.707) | ||||
| P | <.001 | .006 | ||||
| Postoperative physiologic and metabolic derangement | 0.525 (0.408-0.642) | 0.374 (0.243-0.506) | 0.390 (0.155-0.625) | 0.275 (−0.139-0.688) | 0.261 (−0.213-0.735) | 0.639 (−0.204-1.481) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | .001 | .193 | .280 | .137 |
| Postoperative respiratory failure | 0.624 (0.597-0.650) | 0.765 (0.724-0.805) | 0.618 (0.568-0.667) | 0.533 (0.466-0.599) | 0.614 (0.549-0.680) | 0.580 (0.438-0.722) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Postoperative thromboembolism [PE/DVT] | 0.369 (0.349-0.390) | 0.346 (0.301-0.392) | 0.352 (0.300-0.405) | 0.306 (0.251-0.361) | 0.284 (0.191-0.376) | 0.292 (0.130-0.455) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Postoperative wound dehiscence | 0.662 (0.614-0.710) | 0.672 (0.533-0.811) | 0.437 (0.272-0.602) | 0.582 (0.332-0.832) | ||
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; PE\DVT, pulmonary embolism/deep vein thrombosis.