Research Article
Enhanced Recovery after Surgery in a Single High-Volume Surgical Oncology Unit: Details Matter
Table 2
Demographics for all patients on a single surgical unit, 2013–2015.
| Factor | Percent | Number |
| Gender | | | Male | 48.2 | 190 | Female | 51.8 | 204 |
| Age | | | Median | 63 | 20–93 | Mean | 62.5 | 12.9 |
| Race | | | White | 59.9 | 236 | Black | 36.5 | 144 | Other | 3.6 | 14 |
| Diagnosis | | | Other abdominal | 33.0 | 127 | Colorectal cancer | 28.1 | 108 | Pancreatic cancer | 15.8 | 61 | Liver malignancies | 10.1 | 39 | Gastric cancer | 6.5 | 25 | Small bowel cancer | 6.5 | 25 |
| Charlson index | | | 0–2 (low) | 40.4 | 159 | 3–5 (intermediate) | 39.6 | 156 | >5 (high) | 20.0 | 79 |
| Surgery | | | Other abdominal | 24.1 | 95 | Pancreatectomy | 21.1 | 83 | Intestinal resection | 18.3 | 72 | Hepatic resection | 13.7 | 54 | Colectomy | 17.0 | 67 | Gastrectomy | 5.8 | 23 |
| Provider | | | Test physician | 45.4 | 179 | Control physician 1 | 44.9 | 177 | Control physician 2 | 9.6 | 38 |
| ERAS | | | Yes | 22.1 | 87 | No | 77.9 | 307 |
| LOS | | | Median | 6 | 1–55 | Mean | 7.6 | 6.9 |
| Cost | | | Median | 20,998 | 6,052–174,537 | Mean | 25,040 | 18,700 |
| Complications | | | Grade 0-I | 63.2 | 249 | Grade II–V | 36.8 | 145 |
| Readmissions | 15.7 | 61 |
| Mortality rate | 2.3 | 9 |
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