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Table 1 Baseline patient demographics and clinical characteristicsa

From: Outpatient compared to inpatient thyroidectomy on 30-day postoperative outcomes: a national propensity matched analysis

 

All patients

(N = 55,381)

Outpatient

(n = 41,326)

Inpatient

(n = 14,055)

Standard difference

P Value*

Female, Sex, No. (%)

44557 (80.5)

33616 (81.3)

10941 (77.8)

0.087

 < .001

Age, mean (SD), y

51.4 (14.8)

51.4 (14.6)

51.3 (15.2)

0.004

0.666

BMI, mean (SD)

30.7 (7.57)

30.8 (7.56)

30.3 (7.60)

 

 < .001

Diabetes, No. (%)

7679 (13.9)

5554 (13.4)

2125 (15.1)

-0.048

 < .001

Current Smoker, No. (%)

8030 (14.5)

5977 (14.5)

2053 (14.6)

-0.004

0.676

Dyspnea, No. (%)

3069 (5.5)

2203 (5.3)

866 (6.2)

-0.036

 < .001

History of COPD, No. (%)

1397 (2.5)

1031 (2.5)

366 (2.6)

-0.007

0.475

Congestive Heart Failure, No. (%)

200 (0.4)

90 (0.2)

110 (0.8)

-0.080

 < .001

Hypertension, No. (%)

21412 (38.7)

16030 (38.8)

5382 (38.1)

0.010

0.296

Disseminated cancer, No. (%)

382 (0.7)

232 (0.6)

150 (1.1)

-0.056

 < .001

Steroid use, No. (%)

1483 (2.7)

1048 (2.5)

435 (3.1)

-0.034

 < .001

Bleeding disorders, No. (%)

620 (1.1)

378 (0.9)

242 (1.7)

-0.071

 < .001

ASA classification, No. (%)

 1 or 2

36,372/55266 (65.8)

27,647/41291 (66.9)

8725/13975 (62.4)

0.095

 < .001

 3, 4, or 5

18894/55266 (34.2)

13644/41291 (33.0)

5250/13975 (37.6)

-0.095

 

RVUs, mean (SD)

15.03 (5.6)

14.6 (4.8)

16.18 (7.5)

-0.246

 < .001

Operative time, mean (SD), No., min

113.4 (60.5), 55369

106.3 (52.2), 41318

134.1 (76.4), 14051

-0.424

 < .001

  1. aIncludes patients in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database undergoing surgery for thyroidectomy of the neck from 2015 to 2018. Percentages have been rounded
  2. *P-values were calculated from Chi-Square test for binary variables, and Students T-test for continuous variables
  3. Abbreviations: BMI Body mass index, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists, RVU relative value unit