. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 15.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2019 Mar 15;27(6):e293–e300. doi: 10.5435/JAAOS-D-17-00447

Table 3.

Analysis of patients who had a delay to surgery (DTS) by reason

	All patients	Delay due to medical clearance	Delay due to OR availability	Delay due to patient initially refusing surgery
Number of patients	177	25	16	5
CCI = 4 or more	42 (24%)	10/25 (40%) p = < .05^*	2/16 (13%) p =0.27	1/5 (20%) p =0.84
Post-operative complication rate (excluding delirium)	33 (19%)	8/25 (32%) p = 0.06	0/16 (0%) p < 0.05^*	3/5 (60%) p < 0.05^*
Length of stay (days)	6.0 ± 3.1	7.0 ± 2.9 p < 0.05^*	5.3 ± 1.6 p = 0.36	9.2 ± 3.1 p < 0.01^*
Average total cost of hospitalization	$33,495	$40,264 p < 0.01^*	$31,443 p =0.48	$44,882 p < 0.05^*

Statistically significant