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. 2019 Aug 21;12(3):83–88.

Table 6.

Hospital outcomes for patients undergoing non-operative, operative, and embolization management of splenic trauma.

Parameter	Treatment Group^*			p value
Parameter	Observation	Embolization	Operative	p value
Number of observations	169 (49.3)	78 (22.7)	96 (28.0)	---
Mechanical ventilation	42 (24.9)^a	9 (11.5)^b	72 (75.0)^c	< 0.001
Ventilator days^†	7 (2,16.3)^a	2 (2,9)^a	4 (1.3,15)^a	0.042
ICU admission	141 (83.4)	73 (93.6)	84 (87.5)	0.087
ICU days^†^‡	2 (1,6)^a	2 (1,3)^a	5.5 (2,18)^b	< 0.001
Hospital length of stay	5 (3,10)^a	4 (3,7)^a	10 (3,21.8)^b	0.001
Mortality	7 (4.1)^a	2 (2.6)^a	25 (26.3)^b	<0.001

^*

Data are presented as Number (%) or Median (interquartile range).

^†

Only individuals with non-zero days included in analysis.

^‡

Missing values are present in the dataset.

^a,b,c

Values within a row with different superscript letters are significant at the 0.05 level.