A single-institutional experience on colorectal surgeries with and without mechanical bowel preparation

Publication Date

2015

Document Type

Research

Abstract

This study compared the main and secondary outcomes of local patients who underwent elective colorectal surgeries with or without mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) in one institution. A total of 51 patients were used as samples in this study. they underwent colorectal surgeries over the last 2 years. The study concluded that there is no sufficient evidence to show that significant difference exists in the average incidence of main complications of MBP and no MBP patients. This is based on negative or below zero t-statistic and the p-value of the test which surpasses the 0.05 set level of significance. similarly, there is no significantly different in terms of secondary outcomes such as, the average duration of operation procedure, incidence of fecal spillage and incidence of re-operation. These are based on the negative or below zero t-statistics and corresponding p-values, which all exceed the 0.05 alpha level of significance. Nevertheless, there is sufficient evidence to show the existence of significant difference in so far as the average number of days patients returned their bowel functions, started their feeding and stayed in the hospital. These are based on the positive (non zeroes) t-statistics with almost nil p-values or lower than the 0.05 level of significance. Finally, it is emphasized that these conclusions are for the samples used in this study only and further studies on larger samples may be conducted to establish more evidences as found in this study.

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