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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Jan 25;68(3):505–510. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16344

Table 1.

Patient characteristics up to 1 year after surgery.

Characteristics Entire Cohort N=37,748 Subjects Alive at 1 year n=27,048 Subjects dead at 1 year n=10,700 P
Type of surgery/procedure, n (%)
 Gastrectomy 9791 (25.9) 7102 (26.3) 2689 (25.1) <.0001
 Cystectomy 14294 (37.9) 10571 (39.1) 3723 (34.8)
 Pancreaticoduodenectomy 10845 (28.7) 7299 (27.0) 3546 (33.1)
 Esophagectomy 2818 (7.5) 2076 (7.7) 742 (6.9)
Age (years), n (%)
 65–69 11448 (30.3) 8723 (32.3) 2725 (25.5) <.0001
 70–74 8304 (22.0) 6142 (22.7) 2162 (20.2)
 75–79 9133 (24.2) 6485 (24.0) 2648 (24.7)
 80–84 6035 (16.0) 3994 (14.8) 2041 (19.1)
 ≥ 85 2828 (7.5) 1704 (6.3) 1124 (10.5)
 Mean ± SD 74.8 ± 6.3 74.3 ± 6.1 75.8 ± 6.6 <.0001
Gender, n (%)
 Male 25021 (66.3) 17954 (66.4) 7067 (66.0) 0.5391
 Female 12727 (33.7) 9094 (33.6) 3633 (34.0)
Race, n (%)
 White 31778 (84.2) 22782 (84.2) 8996 (84.1) <.0001
 Black 3314 (8.8) 2248 (8.3) 1066 (10.0)
 Other 2656 (7.0) 2018 (7.5) 638 (6.0)
Disposition after hospitalization, n (%)
 Home (no assistance) 29125 (77.2) 22015 (81.4) 7110 (66.4) <.0001
 Facility (SNF, Hospice, Inpatient) 8623 (22.8) 5033 (18.6) 3590 (33.6)
Charlson Comorbidity Index Score, n (%)
 0–1 17525 (46.4) 13620 (50.4) 3905 (36.5) <.0001
 2–4 17831 (47.2) 12079 (44.7) 5752 (53.8)
 >4 2392 (6.3) 1349 (5.0) 1043 (9.7)
Hospital length of stay (LOS) in days, Mean ± SD 12.3 ± 9.9 11.1 ± 8.2 15.4 ± 12.6 <.0001
Number of hospital admissions, Mean ± SD 1.5 ± 2.0 1.3 ± 1.9 2.0 ± 2.1 <.0001
Number of days spent in hospital after index admission, Mean ± SD 13.9 ± 26.2 11.5 ± 25.4 19.7 ± 27.0 <.0001
Number of SNF admissions, Mean ± SD 1.5 ± 1.0 1.5 ± 1.0 1.5 ± 0.9 0.2127
Number of days in SNF, Mean ± SD 37.2 ± 50.6 41.0 ± 57.8 31.6 ± 37.0 <.0001
Death within 1 year, cumulative n (%)
 1 month 1364 (3.6) -- 1364 (12.7)
 3 months 3278 (8.7) -- 3278 (30.6)
 6 months 6018 (15.9) -- 6018 (56.2)
 9 months 8514 (22.6) -- 8514 (79.6)