Research Article
Singapore General Hospital Experience on Ethnicity and the Incidence of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting after Elective Orthopaedic Surgeries
Table 2
Incidence of nausea, vomiting, and nausea and/or vomiting amongst ethnic groups.
| | | Chinese
() | Malay
() | Indian
() | values |
| | Nausea (total), % | 34.3 | 32.9 | 29.4 | 0.717 | | Mild | 29.1 | 30.3 | 23.5 | 0.868 | | Moderate | 3.6 | 2.6 | 4.4 | | Severe | 1.6 | 0.0 | 1.5 | | Vomiting (total), % | 22.8 | 17.1 | 20.6 | 0.507 | | Mild | 17.0 | 14.5 | 13.2 | 0.825 | | Moderate | 4.8 | 2.6 | 5.9 | | Severe | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | | Nausea and/or vomiting, % | 34.6 | 34.2 | 29.4 | 0.695 |
| | | Chinese
() | Non-Chinese
() | value |
| | Nausea (total), % | 34.2 | 31.2 | 0.493 | | Mild | 29.1 | 27.1 | 0.799 | | Moderate | 3.6 | 3.5 | | Severe | 1.6 | 0.7 | | Vomiting (total), % | 22.8 | 18.8 | 0.293 | | Mild | 17 | 13.9 | 0.770 | | Moderate | 4.8 | 4.2 | | Severe | 1.0 | 0.7 | | Nausea and/or vomiting, % | 34.6 | 31.9 | 0.549 |
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