Table 1.

Demographics for Patients with No Bile Leaks or Bile Duct Injuries, Patients with Bile Leaks, and Patients with Bile Duct Injuries

Characteristic	Patients with no bile leak or duct injury (n = 706,355)		Patients with bile leak (n = 3,551)		Patients with bile duct injury (n = 1,548)		p Value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Age							<0.001
≤19 y	251,891	35.7	1,406	39.6	427	27.7
39 to 50 y	129,319	18.3	662	18.7	259	16.8
50 to 65 y	177,337	25.1	860	24.2	378	24.6
≥65 y	147,773	20.9	623	17.5	476	30.9
Sex, female	513,467	72.7	2,646	74.5	1,025	66.6	<0.001
Race							<0.001
Non-Hispanic white	336,407	48.1	1,799	51.0	714	46.7
Hispanic	259,895	37.2	1,288	36.5	482	31.4
Asian	49,292	7.1	229	6.5	201	13.2
Black	30,792	4.4	124	3.5	76	5.0
Native American/other	22,807	3.2	91	2.5	56	3.7
Charlson Comorbidity Index score >3	23,469	3.3	111	3.1	88	5.7	<0.001
Payer status							<0.001
Private	386,762	54.8	1,945	54.8	694	45.1
Medicare	154,921	21.9	677	19.1	468	30.4
Medicaid	109,433	15.5	627	17.7	250	16.3
Self-pay/non-federal indigent	51,714	7.3	291	8.2	122	7.9
Other	3,403	0.5	11	0.2	5	0.3
Setting							<0.001
Outpatient	375,703	53.2	1,629	45.9	261	16.9
Inpatient
Laparoscopic
Unscheduled	253,828	35.9	1,550	43.6	310	20.0
Scheduled	41,405	5.9	201	5.7	83	5.4
Open
Unscheduled	26,131	3.7	133	3.7	564	36.4
Scheduled	9,288	1.3	38	1.1	330
Facility performing cholecystectomy							<0.001
No surgical residency	531,300	75.2	2,631	74.1	1,079	70.1
Affiliated with surgical residency	140,237	19.9	734	20.7	351	22.8
Surgical residency	34,783	4.9	186	5.2	110	7.1