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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2016 Jan 14;222(4):515–524. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.12.038

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Independent association between index complications and length of postoperative hospitalization in emergency general surgery patients. Beta coefficient adjusted for known patient- and procedure-related factors and for presence of other index complications; logarithmic transformation of postoperative length of hospital stay used as dependent variable in linear regression model. adj Beta, adjusted Beta coefficient; SSI, surgical site infection; UTI, urinary tract infection; VTE, venous thromboembolism.