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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Dis Colon Rectum. 2013 Oct;56(10):1174–1184. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e31829ec889

Table 1.

Association between hospital characteristics and use of intraoperative HA-CMC.

Any use of HA-CMC Early uptake of HA-CMC (on or before 2004)
No Yes No Yes

N (%) N (%) p-value N (%) N (%) p-value
148 (24.2) 464 (75.8) 317 (51.8) 295 (48.2)
Age <60 0.05 0.01
 <50% 24 (33.3) 48 (66.7) 47 (65.3) 25 (34.7)
 ≥50% 124 (23.0) 416 (77.0) 270 (50.0) 270 (50.0)
Black patients 0.006 0.37
 <20% 78 (20.1) 303 (79.5) 192 (50.4) 189 (49.6)
 ≥20% 70 (30.3) 161 (69.7) 125 (54.1) 106 (45.9)
Medicaid/uninsured population 0.003 0.003
 <10% 58 (19.1) 246 (80.9) 139 (45.7) 165 (54.3)
 ≥10% 90 (29.2) 218 (70.8) 178 (57.8) 130 (42.2)
Commercial insurance 0.05 0.008
 <50% 58 (29.0) 142 (71.0) 119 (59.5) 81 (40.5)
 ≥50% 90 (21.8) 322 (78.2) 198 (48.1) 214 (51.9)
Comorbidity ≥1 0.003 0.51
 <40% 62 (33.7) 122 (66.3) 99 (53.8) 85 (46.2)
 ≥40% 86 (20.1) 342 (80.0) 218 (50.9) 210 (49.1)
Teaching status 0.009 0.001
 Non-teaching 121 (26.9) 329 (73.1) 251 (55.8) 199 (44.2)
 Teaching 27 (16.7) 135 (83.3) 66 (40.7) 96 (59.3)
Area of residence 0.001 0.001
 Metropolitan 103 (21.3) 380 (78.7) 233 (48.2) 250 (51.8)
 Non-metropolitan 45 (34.9) 84 (65.1) 84 (65.1) 45 (34.9)
Region 0.05 0.05
 Eastern 23 (25.8) 66 (74.2) 52 (58.4) 37 (41.6)
 Midwest 47 (30.7) 106 (69.3) 88 (57.5) 65 (42.5)
 Southern 64 (23.0) 214 (77.0) 127 (45.7) 151 (54.3)
 Western 14 (15.2) 78 (84.8) 50 (54.4) 42 (45.7)
Hospital size 0.001 <0.0001
 <400 beds 127 (27.9) 329 (72.2) 262 (57.5) 194 (42.5)
 400-600 beds 14 (13.3) 91 (86.7) 36 (34.3) 69 (65.7)
 >600 beds 7 (13.7) 44 (86.3) 19 (37.3) 32 (62.8)