The Quest for Outpatient Mastectomy in COVID-19 Era: Barriers and Facilitators
Table 1
Patient and baseline characteristics.
Outpatient mastectomy, n = 133 (%)
Inpatient mastectomy, n = 80 (%)
value
Age
63.4 ± 12.8
65.7 ± 14.7
0.440
BMI
26.3 ± 5.3
26.9 ± 4.8
0.180
Smoking status
0.534
Yes
16 (12.0)
12 (15.0)
No
117 (88.0)
68 (85.0)
Polypharmacy
0.377
Yes
102 (76.7)
57 (71.3)
No
31 (23.3)
23 (28.7)
ASA classification
0.068
I
52 (39.1)
20 (25.0)
II
69 (51.9)
46 (57.5)
III
12 (9.0)
13 (16.3)
IV
0 (0)
1 (1.3)
Type of surgery
0.007
Mastectomy unilateral
120 (90.2)
63 (78.8)
Mastectomy bilateral
1 (0.8)
7 (8.8)
Mastectomy with ALND
12 (9.0)
10 (12.5)
Continuous variables are presented as mean ± standard deviation, and categorical variables are presented as frequency (%). BMI, body mass index; ASA, American Society of Anaesthesiologists classification; ALND, axillary lymph node dissection.
