Transanal Irrigation for Refractory Chronic Idiopathic Constipation: Patients Perceive a Safe and Effective Therapy

Table 2

Transanal irrigation (TAI) therapy use.

Presently still using TAI	54 [53%]
Completely stopped TAI	48 [47%]
Combined length of therapy weeks [years]	6,175 [118.8]
Mean length of therapy use in weeks [SD : SE]	60.5 [73.2 : 7.3]
Median length of therapy use in weeks [range]	30.15 []
Combined irrigations	21,476
Mean irrigations/week [SD : SE]	3.7 [2.6 : 0.26]

SD = standard deviation, SE = standard error.