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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: World J Urol. 2019 Nov 14;38(7):1615–1621. doi: 10.1007/s00345-019-03010-3

Table 5.

Comparison of post-operative outcomes between Group C and D (Comparison 2)

Post operative outcomes Group C Group D p value
n=18 n=28
Median (IQR) Median (IQR)
Surgery time, min 209 (172–234) 228 (210–269) 0.048*
Estimated blood loss, ml 125 (100–200) 100 (80–150) 0.121
Length of hospital stay, days 2 (1–3) 2 (1–2) 0.199
Days to continence 178 (94–247) 187 (82–359) 0.417
Positive surgical margin, % 22.2 32.1 0.522
Complication, % 11.1 10.7 1.000
Readmission, % 10.7 10.9 1.000

Group C: attending surgeon performed all steps of prostatectomy

Group D: attending surgeon performed all cardinal steps and trainee performed at least 1 non-cardinal step of prostatectomy

*

denotes p < 0.05