Table 4.
Time to management decision for patients with EBUS as the only invasive investigation compared to patients with EBUS combined with other invasive investigations (Post-EBUS cohort N = 84a)
| Single EBUS-GS only (n = 14) median (IQR) | EBUS-GS plus other invasive investigations (n = 14)bmedian (IQR) | pc | Single EBUS-TBNA only (n = 28) median (IQR) | EBUS-TBNA plus other invasive investigations (n = 28) median (IQR) | pc | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to management decision (days) | 10 (28) | 45 (48) | 0.001* | 10 (10.0) | 26.5 (29) | <0.001* |
*p < 0.01
aexcludes 6 patients with both EBUS-GS and EBUS-TBNA
bincludes 1 patient with 2 EBUS-GS investigations
cMann–Whitney U test