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Table 10. Frequency and Classification of In-hospital and 30-day Post-discharge Adverse Events
|
|
In-hospital |
30-Day |
|
SIR classificationa |
N (% of 3,041) |
N (% of 2,729) |
|
A |
29 (0.95%) |
68 (2.09%) |
|
B |
45 (1.45) |
552 (20.2%) |
|
A or B |
0 |
228 (8.34%) |
|
C |
9 (0.30%) |
100 (3.52%) |
|
D |
10 (0.33%) |
34 (1.25%) |
|
E |
1 (0.03%) |
1 (0.04%) |
|
F |
0 (0%) |
0 (0%) |
|
Minor complications |
74 (2.40%) |
848 (31.1%) |
|
Major complications |
20 (0.66%) |
135 (4.8%) |
|
ACOG classificationb |
N (% of 3,041) |
N (% of 2,729) |
|
Febrile morbidity |
1 (0.03) |
106 (3.88%) |
|
Readmission |
1 (0.03%) |
65 (2.38%) |
|
Unintended surgery |
2 (0.07%) |
26 (0.95%) |
|
Hemorrhage |
0 |
4 (0.15%) |
|
Life-threatening complications |
3 (0.10%) |
|
a Society of Interventional Radiology. Source: Goodwin SC, Vedantham S, McLucas B, et al. Preliminary experience with uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1997;8(4):517-26.
b American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Source: Liang KY, Zeger S. Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models. Biometrika 1986:73:13-22.
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