Non-inferiority comparative clinical trial between early oral REFEEDING and usual oral REFEEDING in predicted mild acute biliary pancreatitis

Table 3 Hospital length of stay comparison and follow up

Variable	EOR n = 61	UOR n = 59	p
Time for start OR	18 (12–22)	72 (32–96)	0.001^a
Hospital stay length (days)	5 (3–8)	8 (7–10)	0.032^a
Hospital cost (dollars)	2089 (2006–3812)	3310 (2810–4019)	0.0235^a

^aContinuous variables are presented as the medians and interquartile ranges and were compared using the Mann-Whitney U-test

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