Table 3. Mean health-care use and costs (in €) per patient during follow-up after oesophageal cancer surgery.

Cost category	Standard follow-up (n=55)	Nurse-led follow-up (n=54)	P-valuea
Follow-up visits	503	234	<0.001
Total intramural careb	2277	1477	0.19
Total diagnostic proceduresc	689	588	0.34
Additional treatmentd	255	182	0.29
Extramural caree	74	111	0.97
Total costs per patient	3798	2592	0.11

^aDerived from 2000 bootstrap samples drawn with replacement.

^bCosts include hospital stay and extra visits to outpatient clinic.

^cCosts include diagnostic procedures, for example, endoscopy, X-ray, CT-scan.

^dCosts include additional treatment, for example, chemotherapy, radiation therapy.

^eCosts include, for example, visits to the general practitioner.