Standardized Application of Laxatives and Physical Measures in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Patients Improves Defecation Pattern but Is Not Associated with Lower Intracranial Pressure

Table 2

Standard care and intervention group. Adequate defecation was observed significantly more often in the intervention group, whereas excessive defecation was seen as frequent in intervention group and in standard care group.

	Total patients	Female; (%)	Male; (%)	Mean age; years (SD)	Adequate defecation; (%)	Excessive defecation; (%)
Standard care group	109	43 (39.4)	66 (60.6)	52.6 (15.5)	9 (8.3)	7 (6.4)
Intervention group	37	13 (35.1)	24 (64.9)	46.6 (19.7)	9 (24.3)	2 (5.4)
					P 0.01; OR 3.6	P 0.59

: number, SD: standard deviation, and OR: odds ratio.