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Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Aug;79(2):282–288. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000732

Table 3.

Interventions and Outcomes of patients with acute appendicitis treated at 122 University HealthSystems Consortium Hospitals based on type of care model for emergency general surgery patients.

	General Surgeon On-call Model N = 1,151	Acute Care Surgery Model N =1,414	p value^*
Intervention
Open appendectomy, N (%)	224 (19.5)	167 (11.8)	<0.0001
Laparoscopic appendectomy, N (%)	795 (69.1)	1072 (75.8)	<0.0001
IR drain only, N (%)	19 (1.7)	29 (2.1)	0.4570
None, N (%)	112 (9.7)	143 (10.1)	0.7475
Required intensive care, N (%)	47 (4.1)	61 (4.2)	0.7759
Hospital LOS (days), median (IQR)	2 (1, 4)	2 (1, 3)	0.1122
Any major complication, N (%)	17 (1.4)	13 (0.9)	0.1914
Total number complications (mean)	1.2	1.0	0.3322
In-hospital mortality, N (%)^**	—	—
Total charges ($), median (IQR)	8,032 (6,262, 11,438)	8,798 (6,737, 12,444)	<0.0001

Pearson chi-squared test of association or non-parametric tests of comparison of medians or t-tests for means

^**

N<10 therefore not reported