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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with one-year follow-up completed

From: Challenges of one-year longitudinal follow-up of a prospective, observational cohort study using an anonymised database: recommendations for trainee research collaboratives

 

No follow-up

(n = 2104)

Follow-up

(n = 3481)

p-value

Age (years)

Mean (SD)

62.8 (15.9)

62.6 (16)

0.689

Gender

Female

1561 (44.8)

967 (46.0)

0.417

Male

1920 (55.2)

1137 (54.0)

 

ASA Grade

ASA I-II

2176 (67.0)

1312 (68.5)

0.279

ASA III-V

1071 (33.0)

604 (31.5)

 

Operative urgency

Elective

2752 (79.1)

1687 (80.2)

0.314

Emergency

729 (20.9)

417 (19.8)

 

RCRI score

< 3

3328 (95.7)

2014 (96.0)

0.491

≥3

151 (4.3)

83 (4.0)

 

Operative approach

Laparoscopic

1339 (38.5)

1006 (48.0)

< 0.001

Open/ laparoscopic converted to open

2136 (61.5)

1090 (52.0)

 

Operative contamination

Clean-contaminated

3234 (93.2)

1928 (91.9)

0.065

Contaminated

235 (6.8)

170 (8.1)

 

AKI within 7 days of index surgery

No AKI

2979 (85.6)

1837 (87.3)

0.060

AKI

443 (12.7)

225 (10.7)

 

Missing

59 (1.7)

42 (2.0)

 
  1. AKI Acute Kidney Injury, ASA American Society of Anaesthesiologists, RCRI Revised Cardiac Risk Index