Table 2.
Characteristics of study participants in the audit and re-audit period.
| Group I |
Group II |
P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audit group (N = 54) |
Re-audit group (N = 54) |
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| N | % | N | % | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 37 | 68.5 | 42 | 77.8 | 0.278 |
| Female | 17 | 31.5 | 12 | 22.2 | |
| Age: (years) | |||||
| Mean ± SD | 43.20 ± 12.13 | 43.76 ± 11.94 | 0.811 | ||
| Range | 23.0–80.0 | 20.0–70.0 | |||
| Occupation | |||||
| Employee | 23 | 42.6 | 24 | 44.4 | 0.846 |
| Unemployed | 31 | 57.4 | 30 | 55.6 | |
| Smoking | |||||
| Smoker | 24 | 44.4 | 19 | 35.2 | 0.326 |
| Non-smoker | 30 | 55.6 | 35 | 64.8 | |
| BMI | |||||
| Mean ± SD | 24.45 ± 3.37 | 22.55 ± 2.19 | 0.001* | ||
| Range | 19.0–32.4 | 19.0–28.0 | |||
| Surgery | |||||
| Discectomy (n = 77) | 39 | 38 | 0.965 | ||
| Decompression (n = 17) | 8 | 9 | |||
| Decompression + discectomy (n = 14) | 7 | 7 | |||
Group I: audit group, Group II: re-audit group.
*
Statistically significant p value.