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Table 2 Intraoperative characteristics of diverticulitis patients who underwent elective colectomy by type of bowel preparation

From: Impact of bowel preparation on elective colectomies for diverticulitis: analysis of the NSQIP database

	Type of bowel preparation
	NP		MBP alone		ABP alone		MBP + ABP		P value
	(N = 2524)	(%)	(N = 4715)	(%)	(N = 739)	(%)	(N = 8402)	(%)	P value
Type of resection									< 0.0001
Left	2437	96.55	4660	98.83	727	98.38	8277	98.51
Right	87	3.45	55	1.17	12	1.62	125	1.49
Wound classification									< 0.0001
Clean	19	0.75	36	0.76	9	1.22	42	0.50
Clean/contaminated	1734	68.70	3488	73.98	479	64.82	5860	69.75
Contaminated	446	17.67	701	14.87	148	20.03	1546	18.40
Dirty/infected	325	12.88	490	10.39	103	13.94	954	11.35
Approach									< 0.0001
Open	439	25.27	515	14.92	86	15.66	1043	16.74
Laparoscopic	1524	70.04	3006	75.78	455	71.65	5149	70.79
Robotic	213	9.79	446	11.24	94	14.80	1082	14.87
Operative time > 3 h	1256	49.76	2328	49.37	407	55.07	4285	51.00	0.019

Bold values are significant results with two-side P-values <0.05

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