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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2020 Jun 9;254:350–363. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2020.05.007

Table 1:

Characteristics of training and testing cohorts.

Training Testing
Date ranges June 2014-Feb 2018
(n=40560)
March 2018-Feb 2019
(n=11969)
Average age (years) 56.5 57.5
Ethnicity, n (%) Not Hispanic 38116 (93.9) 11210 (93.6)
Hispanic 1772 (4.4) 599 (5)
Missing 717 (1.8) 171 (1.4)
Race, n (%) White 31399 (77.3) 9376 (78.3)
African American 6136 (15.1) 1739 (14.5)
Other 2483 (6.1) 702 (5.9)
Missing 587 (1.5) 163 (1.4)
Gender, n (%) Male 20614 (50.8) 6072 (50.7)
Female 19991 (49.2) 5908 (49.3)
Primary Insurance, n (%) Medicare 18581 (45.8) 5774 (48.2)
Private 12463 (30.7) 3308 (27.6)
Medicaid 6577 (16.2) 1928 (16.1)
Uninsured 2984 (7.4) 970 (8.1)
Outcomes, n (%) ICU Stay > 48 hours 10355 (25.5) 3408 (28.5)
MV Duration > 48 hours 2372 (5.9) 767 (6.4)
Neurological Complications and Delirium 5860 (14.5) 2364 (19.8)
Acute Kidney Injury 6098 (15) 2111 (17.6)
Cardiovascular Complication 5866 (14.5) 2240 (18.7)
Venous Thromboembolism 2283 (5.6) 943 (7.9)
Wound 7548 (18.6) 3044 (25.4)
Hospital Mortalitya 192 (2.3) 93 (2.6)
a

Models for hospital mortality were developed using 8,378 surgeries and validated using 3,591surgeries among 11,969 surgeries in the test cohort.