Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients under traditional process group and multimodal practice group.
| Characteristics | Study group |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tradition (n = 2,280) | Multi-model (n = 2,350) | ||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 1,245 (54.6%) | 1,247 (53.1%) | 0.302 |
| Female | 1,035 (45.4%) | 1,103 (46.9%) | |
| Age (years) | 50.6 ± 15.2 | 51.9 ± 16.7 | 0.137 |
| Primary disease | |||
| Hepatobiliary surgery | 673 (29.5%) | 625 (26.6%) | 0.082 |
| Gynecological operation | 248 (10.9%) | 286 (12.2%) | |
| Gastrointestinal surgery | 846 (37.1%) | 911 (38.8%) | |
| Urologic surgery | 485 (21.3%) | 487 (20.7%) | |
| Others | 28 (1.2%) | 41 (1.7%) | |
Values were expressed as n (percentage, %) or mean ± SD. p values for each group were derived from Mann–Whitney test. Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test was used for assessing distribution of observations or phenomena between two groups.