Table 1.
Patient demographics and operative details.
| Number of patients identified | 166 |
| Gender: men | 112 (67%) |
| Age: median (IQR) | 66 (61 to 73) years |
| Comorbidity | 91 (55%) |
| BMI: median (IQR) | 27.3 (24.2 to 30.3) |
| Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy | |
| None | 124 (75%) |
| Long course | 36 (22%) |
| Short course | 6 (3%) |
| Operation details | |
| Anterior resection | 63 (38%) |
| Right hemicolectomy | 50 (30%) |
| Left/sigmoid colectomy | 30 (18%) |
| Abdominoperineal resection | 13 (8%) |
| Hartmann's procedure | 6 (4%) |
| Subtotal colectomy | 3 (2%) |
| Panproctocolectomy | 1 (<1%) |
| Mode of surgery | |
| Open | 124 (75%) |
| Laparoscopic | 42 (19%) |
| Converted | 10 (6%) |
| Elective : emergency | 153 (92%) : 13 (8%) |
| Stoma required | 72 (43%) |
| Preoperative bloods: median (IQR) | |
| Haemoglobin (g/dL) | 13.0 (11.9 to 14.3) |
| Platelets (×106/mL) | 249 (218 to 333) |
| Neutrophils (×106/mL) | 4.6 (3.6 to 5.7) |
| Lymphocytes (×106/mL) | 1.5 (1.0 to 2.0) |
| Albumin (mg/L) | 38 (35 to 41) |
| C-reactive protein (mg/L) | 3 (2 to 11) |
IQR: interquartile range.