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Table 2 Procedures, ICU periods, hospital periods, and mortality

From: Early versus late surgery after cervical spinal cord injury: a Japanese nationwide trauma database study

Variables

Early group (n = 291)

Late group (n = 223)

p value

Traction

23/291 (7.9)

24/223 (10.8)

0.27

Aim for Surgery

< 0.01

 Stabilization

169/291 (58.1)

164/223 (74.5)

 

 Decompression

56/291 (19.2)

35/223 (15.7)

 

 Stabilization and decompression

52/291 (17.9)

20/223 (9.0)

 

 Others

14/291 (4.8)

4/223 (1.8)

 

Time from injury to surgery, hours

8 (5–13)

75 (42–111)

< 0.01

Length of ICU stay, days

10 (3–39)

11 (4–28)

0.87

Length of hospital stay, days

48 (27–66)

34 (21–57)

0.29

In-hospital mortality

11/291 (3.8)

5/223 (2.2)

0.32

  1. Data given as number of positive observations/total number of observations (percentage) or as median (interquartile range). For each variable, the number of missing observations can be obtained as the difference between the total number of patients in each phase and the total number of observations. ICU intensive care unit