Table 4.

Outcomes of patients with organ-space surgical site infection in colon and rectal surgery

Variable	Colon (n = 200)	Rectum (n = 136)	Overall (n = 336)	p-value
Readmission, n (%)	39 (19.5)	33 (24.3)	72 (21.4)	0.3
Readmission due to SSI, n (%)	34 (17)	30 (22.1)	64 (19)	0.2
Length of stay, median (IQR) days	25 (18–31)	23 (16–33)	24 (17–36)	0.1
Length of stay, mean (SD) days	30.2 (25)	32 (28)	27.6 (19.7)	0.1
Mortality, n (%)	23 (11.5)	7 (5.1)	30 (8.9)	0.04
Mortality attributed to SSI, n (%)	21 (10.5)	6 (4.4)	27 (8)	0.04

SSI surgical site infection, IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation