Why the study?
What are the preoperative and intraoperative risk factors for prolonged length of stay after common urologic procedures?
Population
556 urology surgery patients accrued between December 2003 and December 2004 at the University of Michigan.
Design
Cohort
Authors
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May identify urologic surgery patients for enhanced monitoring; hypothesis-generating for preoperative risk models and requires prospective validation.
What are the preoperative and intraoperative risk factors for prolonged length of stay after common urologic procedures?
Previous cardiac surgery and abnormal preoperative labs (creatinine, hematocrit) are strong independent predictors of prolonged length of stay after urologic surgery.
Wallner et al. (2008) studied this question.
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