The effect of gender on nephrectomy perioperative outcomes: a national survey
Jesse Sammon1,*, Quoc-Dien Trinh1,2,*, Maxine Sun2, Marco Bianchi2,3, Jan Schmitges2,4, Shahrokh F. Shariat5, Khurshid R. Ghani1, Shyam Sukumar1, Claudio Jeldres2, Alberto Briganti3, Paul Perrotte2, Craig G. Rogers1, James O. Peabody1, Francesco Montorsi3, Mani Menon1, Pierre I. Karakiewicz2
Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 6337-6344, 2012
Abstract Introduction: The effect of gender on complications after surgery is controversial. We examine the effect of gender on five short term nephrectomy outcomes.
Materials and methods: Within the Health Care Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) we focused on nephrectomies performed within the most contemporary years (1998-2007). We tested the rates of blood transfusions, extended length of stay, in-hospital mortality, as well as intraoperative and postoperative complications, stratified according to gender. Multivariable logistic regression analyses fitted with general estimation equations for clustering among hospitals further adjusted for confounding factors. Separate multivariable analyses were performed for open radical… More >