Table 2.
Prevalence of Surrogates for Complications in the Perioperative Period Across CR-LE Levels
| Surrogates for Complications | <5 Years of Comorbidity-Related Life Expectancy |
≥5 Years of Comorbidity-Related Life Expectancy |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lobectomy (n = 323) No. (%)a |
Wedge (n = 221) No. (%)a |
p Value | Lobectomy (n = 3075) No. (%)a |
Wedge (n = 941) No. (%)a |
p Value | |
| Length of hospital stay | 0.03 | 0.35 | ||||
| ≤14 d | 282 (87) | 206 (93) | 2824 (92) | 873 (93) | ||
| >14 d | 41 (13) | 15 (7) | 251 (8) | 68 (7) | ||
| 30-d hospital readmission | 0.19 | 0.24 | ||||
| No | 282 (87) | 184 (83) | 2822 (92) | 852 (91) | ||
| Yes | 41 (13) | 37 (17) | 253 (8) | 89 (9) | ||
| 90-d mortality | 0.04 | 0.41 | ||||
| No | 294 (91) | >210 (>95) | 2977 (97) | 916 (97) | ||
| Yes | 29 (9) | <11 (<5) | 98 (3) | 25 (3) | ||
| Supplemental oxygen ≥ 45 d after dischargeb | 0.19 | <0.001 | ||||
| No | 254 (86) | 148 (81) | 2562 (89) | 664 (86) | ||
| Yes | 42 (14) | 34 (19) | 313 (11) | 111 (14) | ||
Note. Frequencies less than 11 not reported per SEER—Medicare guidelines.
CR-LE, comorbidity-related life expectancy; SEER, Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results.
a
Percentages might not add up to 100% owing to approximation.
b
Total for this category does not add up to the total number of patients in the table heading because patients that had claims for oxygen during the year before surgery were excluded from this analysis.