Table 2.
Intraoperative and postoperative outcomes during hospitalization stratified according to institutional teaching status.
| Non-teaching | Residency teaching | Fellowship teaching | P | |
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| No. of patients | 19193 | 24006 | 3901 | — |
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| Intraoperative complication | 262 (1.4) | 337 (1.4) | 39 (1.0) | 0.12 |
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| Postoperative complication | ||||
| Overall | 2337 (12.2) | 2444 (10.2) | 283 (7.3) | <0.0 |
| Cardiac | 266 (1.4) | 247 (1.0) | 37 (0.9) | 0.00 |
| Respiratory | 458 (2.4) | 437 (1.8) | 37 (0.9) | <0.0 |
| Vascular | 104 (0.5) | 98 (0.4) | 15 (0.4) | 0.09 |
| Operative wound | 71 (0.4) | 114 (0.5) | 15 (0.4) | 0.23 |
| Genitourinary | 185 (1.0) | 285 (1.2) | 36 (0.9) | 0.05 |
| Miscellaneous medical | 1177 (6.1) | 1232 (5.1) | 131 (3.4) | <0.0 |
| Miscellaneous surgical | 553 (2.9) | 618 (2.6) | 92 (2.4) | 0.06 |
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| Length of stay, days | ||||
| Length of stay >3 days | 4592 (23.9) | 3676 (15.3) | 337 (8.6) | <0.0 |
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| In-hospital mortality | 17 (0.1) | 14 (0.1) | 4 (0.1) | 0.41 |