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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Surg Pract Sci. 2022 Jun 10;10:100098. doi: 10.1016/j.sipas.2022.100098

Table 2.

Bivariate analysis of clinical and perioperative factors associated with ability to measure opioid consumption, either through survey response or the combination of survey response and EHR data (measurement).

Characteristic Value N Response % Response p-value Consumption measured % Consumption p-value

Age, years 18 – 45 1,573 16.2% <0.001 39.9% <0.001
46 – 60 2,089 21.7% 42.4%
61 – 70 1,709 24.7% 45.3%
71 – 95 1,182 17.9% 49.2%
Sex Female 3,422 21.2% 0.146 44.9% 0.059
Male 3,131 19.7% 42.5%
Race White 4,774 22.6% <0.001 44.4% 0.086
Asian 170 18.8% 47.1%
Black 727 12.4% 39.2%
Hispanic 127 11.8% 45.7%
Other 755 16.4% 42.9%
Length of stay Outpatient 2,735 19.6% 0.002 46.8% <0.001
1 – 2 days 2,041 23.0% 43.4%
3 – 15 days 1,777 19.0% 39.6%
Preoperative assessment Observed 5,671 21.2% <0.001 44.3% 0.018
Missing 882 15.5% 40.0%
Tobacco use Never used 3,111 21.6% <0.001 44.6% <0.001
Within past month 522 13.6% 35.6%
Within 1–12 months 171 19.9% 45.0%
History 1,867 22.9% 46.2%
Opioid MMEs prescribed* 0 1,901 19.9% 0.452 100.0% 0.440
1 – 99 2,001 21.1% 21.2%
100 – 299 1,576 21.3% 21.3%
300+ 1,065 19.2% 19.4%
Alcohol use Never 1,611 17.9% <0.001 42.8% 0.198
Occasionally 3,582 21.9% 44.7%
Daily 478 27.6% 47.1%
Discharge day MMEs 0 4,196 20.3% 0.275 52.4% <0.001
1 – 10 1,832 21.5% 29.3%
> 10 525 18.5% 25.7%
ASA class 1 526 17.9% 0.001 41.4% 0.330
2 3220 22.5% 43.3%
3 2288 18.6% 45.1%
4–5 512 18.9% 42.8%
*

The consumption chi-squared test and p-value excludes the patients with no opioids prescribed, as they have 100% consumption measurement rate.