Research Article

Time Savings and Surgery Task Load Reduction in Open Intraperitoneal Onlay Mesh Fixation Procedure

Table 4

Statistical analyses for differences between suture and mechanical fixation groups.

MeasureNumber of paired observationsMeanMedianStd. dev.Std. errorLower 95%
CL for mean
Upper 95%
CL for mean

Time difference in minutes1834.9230.0717.984.2425.9843.86

Differences in surgical task load1822.1722.6715.123.5614.6529.69