German Bowel Cancer Center: An Attempt to Improve Treatment Quality

Table 3

Short-term outcome morbidity, R0-state, and in-hospital death.

	Before matching			After matching
	Certified	Noncertified		Certified	Noncertified
At least 1 intraoperative complication (%)	4.6	5.3	0.19	2.7	2.7	0.68
General complications (%)	19.3	18.6	0.457	20.3	17.4	0.03
Abdominal wall dehiscence (%)	1.8	1.9	0.788	1.7	1.6	0.90
Anastomotic leakage (%)	4.4	4.3	0.766	4.4	4.5	0.94
R0 resection (%)	83.5	80.2	0.00057	85.3	85.7	0.78
In-hospital death (%)	2.6	3.5	0.05528	2.8	2.7	1

for Fisher’s exact test.