Table 5.

Socio-demographic Profile of Hospitalized Intestinal Obstruction Secondary to Post-

operative Adhesion Patients with Conservative and Surgical Management
Surgical Management Conservative Management
Socio-demographic
n % Mean (SD) n % Mean (SD)
Profile
Age (Years)
18–60 21 84.00 36.19 (11.81) 42 75.00 40.19 (13.85)
Older than 60 4 16.00 71.50 (10.66) 14 25.00 67.36 (7.32)
Total 25 100.00 56 100.00
Sex
Male 17 68.00 - 42 75.00 -
Female 8 32.00 - 14 25.00 -
Total 25 100.00 56 100.00

Socio-demographic profile Surgical Management Conservative

Management
n % Mean n % Mean
(SD) (SD)
Age (years)
Younger than 18
18‒60 y.o.
>Older than 60 y.o.
Total
Sex
Male
Female
Total

Table 6. Surgical History of Hospitalized Intestinal Obstruction Secondary to Post-operative

Adhesion Patients with Conservative and Surgical Management

Surgical Management Conservative Management

Socio-demographic
n % Mean (SD) n % Mean (SD)
Profile
Diagnosis
 Total
Operation Done
Medium 0 0.00 - 0 - -
Major 25 100.00 - 0 - -
Total 25 100.00 - 0 - -
Category of Operation
Elective 1 4.00 - 0 - -
Emergency 24 96.00 - 0 - -
Total 25 100.00 - 0 - -
(Note: I don’t think it’s necessary for us to present a crosstabulation of Operation Done or
Category of Operation with Management, as all operations must have been managed
surgically. –P)

Surgical Surgical Management Conservative Management

History
n % Mean (SD) n % Mean (SD)
Diagnosis
Total
Operation
done
YesMediu
m
NoMajor
Total
Category of
operation
Elective
Emergency
Total

Clinical Outcomes

The data show that regardless of the management (surgical versus conservative) done,

none of the patients died, i.e., all 815 (100.00%) of them had improved upon discharge. This

can be attributed to many factors, such as effective patient management of the attending

physicians, the circumstances surrounding each of the 85 81 individual cases, and so on. As a
consequence, no test of statistical difference between surgically managed patients and

conservatively managed patients with regard to clinical outcomes can be performed.