Table 3.

Waiting time in days for endovascular and open repair groups demonstrating significantly greater delay from referral to surgery in the EVAR group

	EVAR	Open	P-value
Referral to first consultation, median (IQR) days	20 (9, 40)	12 (6, 57)	NS
Referral to surgery in patients presenting with AAA > 5.5 cm median (IQR) days	129 (77, 160)	77 (41, 169)	0.015
Decision made and surgery, median (IQR) days	56 (32, 82)	42 (24, 66)	NS
CT-scan requested and CT-scan performed, median (IQR) days	42 (28, 68)	47 (22, 72)	NS
Surgery and discharge, median (IQR) days	4 (4, 6)	9 (7, 14)	< 0.0001

NS, not statistically significant.