Frequency and mean number of hospital readmissions according to selected variables
| Number of hospital readmission | p Value* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 n(%) | 1 n(%) | 2 n(%) | 3 n(%) | 4 n(%) | ⩾5 n(%) | mean | ||
| *p Value for Mann-Whitney U test or Kruskal-Wallis test. †Results only for rectal cancer. | ||||||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Female | 87 (53.0) | 48 (29.3) | 11 (6.7) | 8 (4.9) | 5 (3.0) | 5 (3.0) | 1.9 | |
| Male | 112 (46.9) | 57 (23.8) | 34 (14.2) | 13 (5.4) | 10 (4.2) | 13 (5.4) | 2.3 | 0.060 |
| Age | ||||||||
| <60 | 47 (42.3) | 32 (28.8) | 11 (9.9) | 7 (6.3) | 8 (7.2) | 6 (5.4) | 2.4 | |
| 60–74 | 98 (50.5) | 44 (22.7) | 27 (13.9) | 12 (6.2) | 7 (3.6) | 6 (3.1) | 2.1 | |
| ⩾75 | 54 (55.1) | 29 (29.6) | 7 (7.1) | 2 (2.0) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (6.1) | 1.8 | 0.072 |
| Tumour site | ||||||||
| Colon | 129 (51.2) | 66 (26.2) | 27 (10.7) | 15 (6.0) | 7 (2.8) | 8 (3.2) | 2.0 | |
| Rectum | 70 (46.4) | 39 (25.8) | 18 (11.9) | 6 (4.0) | 8 (5.3) | 10 (6.6) | 2.3 | 0.200 |
| Dukes’s stage | ||||||||
| A–B | 103 (57.2) | 43 (23.9) | 16 (8.9) | 8 (4.4) | 7 (3.9) | 3 (1.7) | 1.8 | |
| C | 67 (45.3) | 40 (27.0) | 20 (13.5) | 7 (4.7) | 6 (4.1) | 8 (5.4) | 2.2 | |
| D | 29 (38.7) | 22 (29.3) | 9 (12.0) | 6 (8.0) | 2 (2.7) | 7 (9.3) | 2.7 | <0.001 |
| Chemotherapy | ||||||||
| No | 125 (57.6) | 51 (23.5) | 22 (10.1) | 7 (3.2) | 4 (1.8) | 8 (3.7) | 1.8 | |
| Yes | 74 (39.8) | 54 (29.0) | 23 (12.4) | 14 (7.5) | 11 (5.9) | 10 (5.4) | 2.5 | <0.001 |
| Radiotherapy† | ||||||||
| No | 39 (52.7) | 19 (25.7) | 6 (8.1) | 2 (2.7) | 2 (2.7) | 6 (8.1) | 2.0 | |
| Yes | 31 (40.3) | 20 (26.0) | 12 (15.6) | 4 (5.2) | 6 (7.8) | 4 (5.2) | 2.3 | 0.022 |
| Distance | ||||||||
| ⩽30 km | 174 (48.7) | 96 (26.9) | 43 (12.0) | 16 (4.5) | 14 (3.9) | 14 (3.9) | 2.1 | |
| >30 km | 24 (53.3) | 9 (20.0) | 2 (4.4) | 5 (11.1) | 1 (2.2) | 4 (8.9) | 2.2 | 0.818 |
| Mortality | ||||||||
| No | 162 (55.3) | 72 (24.6) | 29 (9.9) | 11 (3.8) | 9 (3.1) | 10 (3.4) | 1.9 | |
| Yes | 37 (33.6) | 33 (30.0) | 16 (14.5) | 10 (9.1) | 6 (5.5) | 8 (7.3) | 2.8 | <0.001 |
| Educational level | ||||||||
| Less than primary | 83 (47.2) | 49 (27.8) | 24 (13.6) | 9 (5.1) | 6 (3.4) | 5 (2.8) | 2.0 | |
| Primary | 91 (51.4) | 45 (25.4) | 16 (9.0) | 8 (4.5) | 7 (4.0) | 10 (5.6) | 2.2 | |
| Secondary | 21 (58.3) | 8 (22.2) | 2 (5.6) | 1 (2.8) | 2 (5.6) | 2 (5.6) | 2.0 | |
| University | 4 (28.6) | 3 (21.4) | 3 (21.4) | 3 (21.4) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (7.1) | 3.4 | 0.175 |