A closer look at the raw data of the lengths of hospital stay reveals that among those

surgically managed, the longest length was 34 days (by a 20-year-old male patient who

underwent exploratory laparotomy resection of gangrenous ileum exteriorization as double

barrel ileostomy, peritoneal lavage, and adhesiolysis). This case may be an outlier, though, as it

significantly departs from the rest of the data. Meanwhile, the shortest length of stay for this

group of surgically managed patients was 4 days (by a 21-year-old male patient who had "E"

exploratory enterolysis appendectomy peritoneal lavage). On the other hand, among those

who were conservatively managed, the longest length of hospital stay was 16 days (by two

patients, a 26-year-old female and a 24-year-old male) while the shortest was 2 days (by three

male patients, aged 67, 51, and 21).

A comparison of length of hospital stay between the two groups of patients based on

management reveals that those surgically managed stayed in the hospital for a mean of

12.3704 days, which is much longer compared to those who were conservatively managed

(mean length of stay = 7.0913). Likewise, the standard deviation for lengths of hospital stay

among patients surgically managed (sd = 6.7793) compared to that of patients conservatively

managed (sd = 3.298) also indicates that the former have more varied lengths of stay than the

latter, with respect to their respective means, i.e., the lengths of stay of patients who were

conservatively-managed tend to cluster around their average as opposed to those who were

surgically-managed.

Table 7. Clinical Outcomes among Hospitalized Patients Intestinal Obstruction Secondary to

Post-operative Adhesion with Conservative and Surgical Management
Conservative
Surgical Management
Clinical Outcomes Management
n % Mean (SD) n % Mean (SD)
 In-hospital mortality 0 0.00 – 0 0.00 –
Discharge improved 100.0068 275 100.00
2558 – –
.24 6 31.76
Length of hospital stay 12. 3704 7.0139
– – – –
(6.9377) (3.298)
Total 68.24100 562 100.00
2558 – –
.00 7 31.76

An independent t-test was performed to determine if there was a significant difference

between patients surgically managed and patients conservatively managed with regard to their

lengths of hospital stay. Computations revealed that patients who were conservatively

managed had statistically significantly shorter lengths of hospital stay (7.13 ± 3.29 days)

compared to those who were surgically managed (12.04 ± 6.93 days), t(79) = 4.34, p = 0.00.

Table 8. Test of Difference between Hospitalized Intestinal Obstruction Secondary to Post-

operative Adhesion Patients with Conservative and Surgical Management with respect to
Length of Hospital Stay
Variable df Computed t-value Decision Difference
Length of Hospital Stay 79 4.34 Reject null hypothesis Significant