Table 2.
Procedural Characteristics
| Characteristics | All Patients (N = 41,417) (%) | Surgical Approach |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Planned (n = 15,150) (%) | Lap Attempted |
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| All-Lap (n = 26,267) (%) | Successful (n = 22,779) (%) | Conversion (n = 3,488) (%) | |||
| Left colon surgical anatomy | |||||
| Sigmoidectomy | 79.5 | 34.5 | 65.5 | 57.6 | 7.9 |
| Hemicolectomy | 20.5 | 44.3 | 55.7 | 45.4 | 10.3 |
| Indication | |||||
| Diverticulitis | 59.1 | 51.5 | 63.5 | 63.6 | 62.6 |
| Neoplasm cancer | 29.6 | 36.3 | 25.7 | 25.4 | 27.6 |
| Diverticulosis | 11.9 | 13.4 | 11.0 | 10.9 | 11.4 |
| Neoplasm polyp | 10.8 | 10.9 | 10.7 | 10.7 | 10.7 |
| IBD | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.6 |
| 2+ Indications | 9.4 | 10.2 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 10.6 |
| Physician specialty | |||||
| General | 75.1 | 79.4 | 72.7 | 72.0 | 77.0 |
| Colorectal | 18.1 | 12.9 | 21.2 | 22.1 | 15.5 |
| Other | 6.7 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 7.6 | 7.8 |
| Robotic Assisted | 3.4 | 0.8 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 2.2 |
| Year of surgery | |||||
| 2009 | 17.0 | 19.9 | 15.4 | 15.3 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 14.9 | 15.2 | 14.8 | 14.7 | 15.0 |
| 2011 | 16.3 | 16.0 | 16.5 | 16.6 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 18.4 | 17.7 | 18.8 | 19.0 | 18.1 |
| 2013 | 16.9 | 15.5 | 17.8 | 17.7 | 18.2 |
| 2014 | 16.4 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 16.7 | 17.0 |