Enhanced Recovery Protocol Reduces Transfusion Requirements and Hospital Stay in Patients Undergoing an Elective Arthroplasty Procedure

Table 2

Patient characteristics.

	Traditional protocol ()	Enhanced protocol ()	value
Age (mean [SD])	69.6 9.1	69.5 10.2	0.072
Gender
Female (%)	352 (55.2%)	343 (54.5%)	0.819
Procedure (%)
THR	323 (50.6%)	324 (51.5%)	0.753
TKR	315 (49.4%)	305 (48.5%)
Length of stay (mean/median (range))	5.5/4.0 (2–92)	4.8/4.0 (1–41)	<0.001
Readmission	21 (3.3%)	17 (2.7%)	0.539

Note: length of stay is in days. There is no significant difference in age, gender, operation, and readmission. There is a significant difference for length of stay, , using Mann-Whitney’s test.
Value is significant.