Table 4.
Postoperative Outcome Comparison of Individual Nail Lengths
| Outcome | Short (n = 48) | Intermediate (n = 39) | Long (n = 160) | P Value |
| Procedure lengtha (min) | 66.38 (22.33) | 67.13 (27.25) | 79.38 (30.06) | 0.0044 |
| Postoperative length of staya | 12.73 (34.90) | 7.28 (4.97) | 7.36 (7.14) | 0.1294 |
| Total length of staya | 13.79 (34.76) | 8.85 (6.39) | 8.73 (7.55) | 0.1708 |
| Return to inpatient within 30 d | 2 (4.2%) | 2 (5.1%) | 8 (5.0%) | 1.0000 |
| Return to operating room within 30 d | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (1.3%) | 1.0000 |
| Death within 30 d | 4 (8.3%) | 4 (10.3%) | 14 (8.8%) | 0.9461 |
| Death within 1 yrb | 10 (20.8%) | 5 (13.2%) | 19 (11.9%) | 0.2893 |
a
Continuous variables are formatted as follows: mean (SD).
b
Data from 1 patient were missing for death within 1 year. Bold entries are statistically significant at p≤0.05.