Trial reportAnnals of surgery1996
Postoperative stay associated with prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer.
Trial report in Annals of surgery, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Perioperative blood transfusions for the recurrence of colorectal cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2006Pooled it
- Understanding Sex Differences in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Surgery: Insights From a Decade-Long Cohort Study From China.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Prolonged postoperative length of stay may be a valuable marker for susceptibility to relapse beyond established risk factors in patients with stage III colon cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2022Article
- Factors predicting hospital length-of-stay and readmission after colorectal resection: a population-based study of elective and emergency admissions.BMC health services research · 2012Article
- Predictors of length of stay following colorectal resection for neoplasms in 183 Veterans Affairs patients.World journal of surgery · 2009Article
- The association of pretreatment health-related quality of life with surgical complications for patients undergoing open surgical resection for colorectal cancer.Annals of surgery · 2003Article
- Relationship between postoperative stay and prognosis of colorectal cancer patients.Annals of surgery · 1997Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe author's objective was to determine whether the length of postoperative stay for patients after colorectal cancer surgery is associated with prognosis. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Financial pressure to reduce hospital costs has caused physicians to reduce hospital stays by changes in patient care, which reduce hospital stay but may compromise long-term results.
methodsUsing multivariate analysis, the author examined the relationship between postoperative stay and prognosis in a consecutive series of 341 prospectively studied patients with colorectal cancer undergoing potentially curative surgery.
resultsIn multivariate analysis, patients staying beyond the median of 11 days had more complications (p=0.000), more left hemicolectomies and procedures with colostomies (p=0.000), were older (p=0.002), and lost more blood (p=0.012) than patients staying less than the median. Disease-free survival was significantly and independently related to Dukes' stage (p=0.000), postoperative stay (p=0.001), and blood transfusion (p=0.011). The mean postoperative stay for the 98 patients who later developed recurrence was 15 days compared to 12 days for the 243 patients who remained disease free (p=0.0008). Cumulative disease-free survival of the 142 patients who stayed more than the median of 11 days was 60% compared to 77% for the 199 patients with shorter stays (p=0.000).
conclusionsThese data indicate that shorter hospital stays do not compromise disease-free survival of patients with colorectal cancer.
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