Table 4 Surgical starting time of the day for gastric cancer surgery in relation to lymph node retrieval and length of postoperative stay.

From: Surgical starting time of the day and survival in gastric cancer

Starting time

Patients number (%)

Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)a

Lymph node yield

Postoperative stay

08:00–09:29

929 (34.1)

1 (reference)

1 (reference)

09:30–13:29

955 (35.0)

0.88 (0.73–1.06)

0.98 (0.81–1.17)

13:30–21:25

844 (30.9)

1.06 (0.88–1.28)

0.83 (0.68–1.01)

  1. aAdjusted for age, sex, health insurance coverage, neoadjuvant therapy, pathological tumor stage, surgical approach, weekday of surgery.
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