Complications of Common Gynecologic Surgeries among HIV-Infected Women in the United States

Table 1

Demographic and hospitalization characteristics, surgical procedure and approach, and presence of comorbidity among selected gynecological surgeries, by HIV status (United States, 1994–2007).

Characteristic	HIV-Infected𝑁=18,177		HIV-Uninfected𝑁=8,921,603		𝑃value
	𝑛 percentage		𝑛 percentage
Patient age
15–34	6297	34.64	1836185	20.58	<0.001
35–44	7539	41.48	3235700	36.27
45–54	3549	19.53	2361684	26.47
55+	792	4.36	1488034	16.68
Any comorbidity*
Yes	8123	44.69	3040273	34.08	<0.001
Primary payer**
Medicare	2109	11.64	939970	10.57	<0.001
Medicaid	8255	45.55	1040880	11.71
Private Insurer	5276	29.11	6190159	69.63
Other	2483	13.7	718531	8.08
Hospital teaching status/location†
Rural	964	5.31	1349712	15.16	<0.001
Urban nonteaching	4901	27.01	3772124	42.37
Urban teaching	12279	67.67	3781486	42.47
Hospital region
Northeast	5512	30.32	1555612	17.44	<0.001
Midwest	1928	10.61	2070666	23.21
South	9703	53.38	3583074	40.16
West	1034	5.69	1712251	19.19
Surgical procedure (approach)
Hysterectomy with concomitant oophorectomy††	6546	36.01	4314430	48.36	<0.001^‡
(Abdominal)	(5693)	(86.97)	(3561463)	(82.55)
(Vaginal)	(247)	(3.77)	(272811)	(6.32)
(Laparoscopic)	(606)	(9.26)	(480157)	(11.13)
Hysterectomy alone††	4591	25.26	2235199	25.05
(Abdominal)	(2836)	(61.77)	(1248765)	(55.87)
(Vaginal)	(1373)	(29.90)	(703311)	(31.47)
(Laparoscopic)	(382)	(8.33)	(283122)	(12.67)
Oophorectomy alone	1841	10.13	1214082	13.61
Salpingectomy for ectopic pregnancy	609	3.35	252689	2.83
Bilateral tubal sterilization	2290	12.60	302380	3.39
Dilation and curettage	2301	12.66	602823	6.76

*Including obesity, diabetes, cardiac condition or hypertension, asthma, anemia, gastrointestinal ulcers, smoking, and alcohol or substance abuse.
** 𝑁 = 8,907,664 due to missing values.
^†𝑁 = 8,921,466.
^††𝑃 value for surgical approach < 0.001.
^‡𝑃 value for surgical procedure.