Table 2.
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients included in the study stratified by DRAM score.
| N = 65 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| DDRAM Group n = 24 |
NDRAM Group n = 38 |
p-Value | |
| Age, years | 56.96 (±13.89) | 54.70 (±12.53) | 0.513 |
| Sex | |||
| Men, % | 13.85% (9) | 33.85% (22) | 0.118 |
| Women, % | 23.08 % (15) | 24.62% (16) | |
| Surgical time (minutes) | 163.96 (±60.85) | 162.50 (±83.31) | 0.941 |
| Estimated blood loss (cc) | 480.43 (±234.39) | 436.46 (±228.02) | 0.475 |
| Hospital stay (days) | 7.92 (±2.62) | 8.29 (±4.87) | 0.732 |
| Number of instrumented levels | 1.71(±1.074) | 1.97(±1.68) | 0.492 |
DRAM: Distress and Risk Assessment Method; DDRAM: distressed based on DRAM score; NDRAM: not distressed based on DRAM score.