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Table 1 Characteristics of patients pre- and post-intervention to improve inpatient colonoscopy bowel preparation

From: A patient-centered framework for health systems engineering in gastroenterology: improving inpatient colonoscopy bowel preparation

 

Pre-intervention

Post-intervention

p Value

(n = 120)

(n = 129)

Individual factors

 Age, mean (sd)

58.8 (17.34)

57.8 (17.5)

0.65

 Male

61 (50.8)

63 (48.8)

0.75

 Race, non-white

58 (48.3)

76 (58.9)

0.10

 Primary team medicine service

113 (94.2)

113 (87.6)

0.07

Indication

  

0.85

 Diarrhea, colitis

20 (16.7)

25 (19.4)

 

 Fecal transplant

1 (0.8)

3 (2.3)

 

 Abdominal pain

2 (1.7)

4 (3.1)

 

 Anemia

16 (13.3)

18 (14.0)

 

 Colon cancer

14 (11.7)

14 (10.9)

 

 Constipation

2 (1.7)

0

 

 Gastrointestinal bleeding

55 (45.8)

54 (41.9)

 

 Inflammatory bowel disease

10 (8.3)

11 (8.5)

 

Systems factors

Hourly inpatient occupancy, mean (range)

86.75 (85.61, 87.97)

90.32 (88.88, 90.88)

 < 0.001

  1. Data are presented as Number (%) unless otherwise noted
  2. Sd: standard deviation