Research Article

Incidence, Patient-Related Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Postoperative Pneumonia after Cholecystectomy: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Table 4

Outcome characteristics of patients after cholecystectomy with or without pneumonia.

Without pneumonia ()With pneumonia () value

Hospital stay (days)10.71 (11.82)18.55 (15.30)<0.0001
ICU admission rate3639 (15.02%)2532 (41.80%)<0.0001

Continuous variables were described as the (SD) and the categorical variable as number of event (). ICU: intensive care unit; SD: standard deviation.