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METHODS

Patients undergoing RC for non-metastatic bladder cancer were identified using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, between years 1999-2009, resulting in a weighted estimate of 79972 patients. FTR was assessed according to patient and hospital characteristics, as well as types of complications. Generalized linear regression analyses were performed.

RESULTS

Overall, 26740 patients had a complication, corresponding to a FTR rate of 5.5%. Septicemia (odds ratio [OR]: 10.6, P< 0.001), cardiac (OR: 3.1, P< 0.001), neurological (OR: 2.0, P< 0.001), wound (OR: 1.9, P< 0.001), genitourinary (OR: 1.6, P< 0.001), hematological (OR: 1.4, P< 0.001) and infectious (OR: 1.2, P= 0.031) complications were associated with FTR. Older age (OR: 1.06, P< 0.001), higher comorbidities (OR: 1.16, P< 0.001), Asian races (OR: 1.58, P= 0.002), and Medicaid insurance status (OR: 1.72, P= 0.004) were associated with …