Table 3 Relationships between major surgical complications and cost, reimbursement, total margin and length of stay, controlling for effects of age, gender, American Society of Anesthesiology score and body mass index ^a

Complication

$24,889^b

$15,610^b

$9,228^b

$12,326^b

-$12,563^b

8.29^b

$26,269^b

$16,368^b

$9,846^b

$12,138^b

-$14,131^b

8.456^b

(2,024)

(1,246)

(799)

(1,272)

(2,083)

(0.607)

(4,168)

(2,566)

(1,634)

(2,175)

(4,022)

(1.116)

Age

-$118

-$54

-$63

-$153

-$35

-0.135

$854

$572

$281

$16

-$838

0.256

(393)

(242)

(155)

(247)

(404)

(0.118)

(1,498)

(922)

(587)

(782)

(1,445)

(401)

Age-squared

$1

$1

$1

$1

$0

0.001

-$8

-$6

-$3

$0

$8

-0.002

(3)

(2)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(0.001)

(12)

(7)

(5)

(6)

(12)

(0.003)

Female gender

$2,047

$1,258

$796

-$578

-$2,625

0.493

$4,442

$2,698

$1,759

-$991

-$5,432

1.093

(1,680)

(1,034)

(663)

(1,056)

(1,729)

(0.504)

(4,313)

(2,655)

(1,691)

(2,251)

(4,161)

(1.154)

ASA score

$2,598

$1,397

$1,200

$1,391

-$1,207

0.611

$2,272

$1,194

$1,074

-$159

-$2,430

0.411

(1,758)

(1,082)

(694)

(1,104)

(1,809)

(0.528)

(4,755)

(2,927)

(1,864)

(2,482)

(4,588)

(1.272)

BMI

$53

$38

$16

-$110

-$163

0.006

-$51

-$17

-$34

-$208

-$158

-0.024

(121)

(75)

(48)

(76)

(125)

(0.036)

(375)

(231)

(147)

(196)

(362)

(0.100)

Constant

$15,636

$9,791

$5,797

$27,531^b

$11,895

8.011^c

-$2,900

-$2,330

-$584

$31,214

$34,114

0.494

(11,860)

(7,298)

(4,682)

(7,450)

(12,202)

(3.559)

(45,162)

(27,804)

(17,704)

(23,573)

(43,578)

(12,090)^c

Observations

276

276

276

276

276

276

100

100

100

100

100

100

R ²

0.3764

0.3835

0.3509

0.2733

0.1391

0.4290

0.3137

0.3197

0.2945

0.2600

0.1496

0.3928