Statistical Analysis
Analysis team members and the study principal investigator (R.A.A.) were blinded to allocation and the analytic data set included data obtained through September 14, 2022. The primary study outcome was group differences in patient-reported HRQOL at 3 months after the operation. Estimated sample size was based on an unpaired, 2-sample We conducted statistical analyses using R, version 4.2.2 software (R Foundation for Statistical Computing) and used descriptive statistics to estimate the frequencies and means (SDs) of the study variables stratified by study group. We imputed missing outcomes data at 3 months with the nearest postoperative survey. We used 