Table 3.

Univariate associations of factors with 30-day EAT-10 score.

	N	Median (range)	Mean (SD)	p-value
Age	47	-	-	0.483
Gender				0.581
Male	37	11 (1, 33)	12.7 (8.9)
Female	10	8.5 (1, 33)	11.4 (10.6)
History of H&N surgery				0.731
Yes	6	10 (5, 30)	13.2 (9.2)
No	41	10 (1, 33)	12.3 (9.3)
History of XRT				0.371
Yes	3	13 (7, 30)	16.7 (11.9)
No	44	10 (1, 33)	12.1 (9.0)
Tobacco use				0.782
Never smoker	22	8.5 (1, 28)	11.5 (8.8)
Former smoker	13	10 (3, 33)	12.6 (9.7)
Current smoker	12	12 (1, 33)	13.9 (9.9)
Daily alcohol use				0.372
Never	42	10 (1, 33)	11.8 (9.2)
Former	3	21 (6, 27)	18 (10.8)
Current	2	16.5 (16, 17)	16.5 (0.7)
Preoperative dysphagia				0.041
Yes	7	19 (6, 33)	19.7 (10.8)
No	40	9.5 (1, 33)	11.1 (8.4)
Dysphagia on preoperative MBS				0.411
Yes	8	13 (3, 28)	14.3 (8.3)
No	11	9 (1, 23)	10.9 (7.6)
Aspiration on preoperative MBS				0.411
Yes	1	20 (20)	20 (.)
No	18	10 (1, 28)	11.9 (7.9)
Primary TORS surgery				0.661
Radical tonsillectomy	28	9.5 (1, 33)	12.3 (9.6)
BOT	19	11 (3, 33)	12.6 (8.8)
Neck dissection				0.662
No	7	6 (2, 27)	10.0 (9.1)
Concurrent	37	10 (1, 33)	13 (9.6)
Staged	3	11 (10, 11)	10.7 (0.6)
Local flap				0.361
Yes	28	9.5 (1, 28)	10.9 (7.3)
No	19	12 (1, 33)	14.7 (11.2)
T-stage				0.992
TX	3	10 (2, 27)	13.0 (12.8)
T1	23	11 (3, 33)	12.0 (8.1)
T2	19	9 (1, 33)	12.7 (10.3)
T3	2	14 (5, 23)	14.0 (12.7)
N-stage				0.863
N0	7	22 (3, 33)	19 (12)
N1	5	4 (1, 20)	6.4 (7.7)
N2a	10	9 (4, 17)	9.5 (4.4)
N2b	21	12 (1, 33)	13.9 (9.5)
N2c	3	11 (7, 11)	9.7 (2.3)
N3	1	2 (2)	2 (.)
Subject received feeding tube				0.0051
Yes	5	28 (12, 33)	24.8 (8.4)
No	42	9.5 (1, 33)	10.9 (8.1)

SD=standard deviation;

¹Wilcoxon Mann Whitney test;

²Kruskal-Wallis test;

³Spearman correlation