In hospital outcomes
The median postoperative hospital stay was 6 days irrespective of harvest technique groups. However, in the low-pressure group the median was 5.5 days, representing a non-significant higher chance (‘hazard’) of being discharged in the first 5 days. There were similar numbers of participants with one or more post-operative complications during the index admission in the two pressure test groups (41/48, 85% vs. 40/48, 83%; OR (low:high) = 1.23, 95% CI 0.39, 3.90, p=0.72), but a higher number in the pedicled compared to the conventional harvest group (48/51, 94% vs. 33/45, 73%; OR (pedicled:conventional) = 5.86, 95% CI 1.53, 22.4, p=0.0041, Figure 3, Appendix Tables A8 and A9, Figure A2 ).