Table 2.

Bivariate analysis of all incarcerated inguinal hernias by mortality.

	Survived n = 281 [94.6%]	Died n = 16 [5.4%]	p-value
Age (years), median [IQR]	36 (28–50)	58 (41–73)	0.002
Female sex, n (%)	16 (5.7)	3 (18.8)	0.04
HIV positive, n (%)	10 (3.6)	1 (6.3)	0.9
Presented in shock, n (%)	9 (4.6)	3 (18.2)	0.05
Shock index, mean (SD)	0.9 (0.3)	0.7 (0.2)	0.002
Underwent an imaging study, n (%)	89 (31.7)	5 (31.3)	1.0
Transferred to KCH, n (%)	198 (70.7)	15 (93.8)	0.1
Time to surgery from arrival at any health care facility, n (%)			0.006
< 1 day	135 (59.2)	3 (21.4)
≥ days	93 (40.8)	11 (78.6)
Bowel perforation, n (%)	2 (0.7)	0 (0.0)	0.7
Strangulated inguinal hernia, n (%)	55 (19.6)	3 (18.8)	0.9
Take back, n (%)	3 (1.1)	0 (0.0)	0.7
Wound infection, n (%)	3 (1.1)	0 (0.0)	0.7