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01-03-2011 | Erratum
Erratum to: Disparate use of minimally invasive surgery in benign surgical conditions
Published in: Surgical Endoscopy | Issue 3/2011
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Tables 4 and 5 were revised in this article, which was published in Volume 22, Number 9, pp. 1977–1986.
Table 4
Summary of mortality results as a function of race, surgical access, and hospital volume designation. Statistical significance provided for the comparison within race, or surgical access or hospital volume
|
n a
|
Died
|
Proportion (%)
|
p value
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Race
|
0.05
|
|||
|
White
|
46,308
|
72
|
0.16
|
|
|
Black
|
5,319
|
14
|
0.26
|
|
|
Hispanic
|
10,435
|
11
|
0.11
|
|
|
Otherb
|
3,412
|
11
|
0.32
|
|
|
Missing
|
23,066
|
32
|
0.14
|
|
|
Procedure
|
0.0001
|
|||
|
MIS
|
30,029
|
22
|
0.07
|
|
|
Open
|
58,511
|
118
|
0.20
|
|
|
Volume
|
0.1
|
|||
|
Very-Low
|
17,507
|
34
|
0.19
|
|
|
Low
|
17,774
|
36
|
0.20
|
|
|
Mid
|
17,585
|
26
|
0.15
|
|
|
High
|
17,919
|
26
|
0.15
|
|
|
Very-High
|
17,755
|
18
|
0.10
|
|
|
Total
|
88,540
|
140
|
0.16
|
Table 5
Summary of morbidity results as a function of race. Statistical significance provided for the comparison between white and black race
|
White
|
%
|
Black
|
%
|
p value
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Perforation or Laceration
|
89
|
0.19
|
14
|
0.26
|
0.27
|
|
Septic complications
|
152
|
0.33
|
25
|
0.47
|
0.09
|
|
Pneumonia
|
393
|
0.85
|
67
|
1.26
|
0.003
|
|
Procedural complication
|
1,191
|
2.57
|
141
|
2.65
|
0.73
|
|
Complications of specified systems
|
2,163
|
4.67
|
242
|
4.55
|
0.69
|
|
Urinary tract infections
|
223
|
0.48
|
32
|
0.60
|
0.24
|
|
Nausea/Vomiting/Diarrhea
|
921
|
1.99
|
95
|
1.79
|
0.31
|
|
Postoperative GI complications
|
57
|
0.12
|
12
|
0.23
|
0.05
|
|
GI ulcer or bleed
|
181
|
0.39
|
32
|
0.60
|
0.02
|
|
Respiratory complications
|
1,637
|
3.53
|
239
|
4.49
|
0.0004
|
|
Other infections
|
602
|
1.30
|
103
|
1.94
|
0.0002
|
|
Accidental cut complication
|
337
|
0.73
|
31
|
0.58
|
0.24
|