Enhanced recovery after surgery continuity nursing in elderly gastric cancer patients

Table 1 Demographics of patients undergoing gastrectomy, mean ± SD/n (%)

Parameters	Routine group (n = 156)	ERAS-C group (n = 166)	t/χ²	P value
Gender (male/female)	107 (68.59)/49 (31.41)	109 (65.66)/57 (34.34)	0.312	0.576
Age (years)	70.84 ± 10.17	69.66 ± 10.12	1.043	0.298
BMI (kg/m²)	22.12 ± 3.40	22.51 ± 3.11	1.070	0.285
Degree of education			0.874	0.928
Junior high school and below	68 (43.59)	73 (43.98)
Technical secondary school	36 (23.08)	40 (24.10)
High school	30 (19.23)	26 (15.66)
Junior college	13 (8.33)	16 (9.64)
University and above	9 (5.77)	11 (6.63)
Smoking history	59 (37.82)	54 (32.53)	0.988	0.320
Drinking history	71 (45.51)	67 (40.36)	0.871	0.351
Employment	113 (72.44)	121 (72.89)	0.008	0.927
Diabetes	52 (33.33)	50 (30.12)	0.384	0.536
Hypertension	111 (71.15)	116 (69.88)	0.063	0.802
Residence area (town/rural)	85 (54.49)/71 (45.51)	93 (56.02)/73 (43.98)	0.077	0.782
Live alone	22 (14.10)	19 (11.45)	0.511	0.475
Tumor location			5.538	0.136
Upper	32 (20.51)	49 (29.52)
Middle	73 (46.79)	61 (36.75)
Lower	40 (25.64)	48 (28.92)
Remnant stomach	11 (7.05)	8 (4.82)
Clinical TNM stage			0.363	0.834
I	11 (7.05)	14 (8.43)
II	105 (67.31)	107 (64.46)
III	40 (25.64)	45 (27.11)

BMI: Body mass index; ERAD-C: Enhanced recovery after surgery-control; TNM: Tumor, node, metastasis. The TNM stages were based on the eighth edition of the Union for International Center Control/American Joint Committee on Cancer classification system.