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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Overview of patient characteristics in the two study groups

From: Blood-saving dissection with monopolar tungsten needle electrodes and Teflon-coated spatula electrodes in tumor orthopedics

Patient characteristics

Control group

(n = 53)

Intervention group

(n = 79)

p-value

Age in years, median (IQR)

29 (12.5–55)

48 (16–69)

0.0435*

Female, n (%)

19 (36%)

40 (51%)

0.1098

Male, n (%)

34 (64%)

39 (49%)

0.1098

Charlson comorbidity score, median (IQR)

2 (2–6)

3 (2–7)

0.1388*

  1. IQR interquartile range
  2. Bold font indicates p-value < 0.05
  3. *p-value from Mann–Whitney U-test
  4. p-value from Fischer’s exact test