The Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI)summarises all postoperative complications based on the established Clavien-Dindo classification (ranging from mild complications not leading to a deviation from the normal clinical course (grade I) up to postoperative death (grade V)) at an individual patient level according to their grade of severity.
If the ghost ileostomy group required bed rest or a second surgery for ileostomy due to complications or no stoma group required a second surgery due to complications, the number of days of hospitalization due to complications and/or reoperation since total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer was recorded.
Patients in the ghost ileostomy and no stoma groups who did not have a second surgery due to complications recorded the number of hospitalizations after total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer. If the ghost ileostomy and no stoma groups required bedside or secondary surgery for diverting ileostomy due to complications, record the number of hospitalizations due to complications and/or reoperation since the data of total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.
Patients in the ghost ileostomy and no stoma groups who did not have a second surgery due to complications recorded the number of hospitalizations after total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer. If the ghost ileostomy and no stoma groups required bedside or secondary surgery for diverting ileostomy due to complications, record the number of hospitalizations due to complications and/or reoperation since the data of total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.
Patient hospitalization costs for total mesorectal excision of rectal cancer.
Patients in the ghost ileostomy and no stoma groups who did not have a second surgery due to complications recorded the costs total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer, if the ghost ileostomy and no stoma groups required bedside or secondary surgery for diverting ileostomy due to complications and all patients in the diverting ileostomy group required reoperation for stoma reversal, record the costs due to complications and reoperation since the data of total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.