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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2010 Oct 25;211(6):784–790. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.08.009

Table 4.

Total hospital cost ($$, mean ± standard deviation) in different surgical groups with various time delay to surgery

Time delay to surgery, days Surgical procedure
CABG Colon resection Lung resection
0 25,164 ± 16,777 13,660 ± 12,268 18,519 ± 16,662
1 28,962 ± 17,439 17,431 ± 17,387 22,169 ± 21,869
2–5 38,873 ± 19,163 21,018 ± 16,182 22,696 ± 17,922
6–10 42,055 ± 24,779 25,307 ± 19,869 25,054 ± 16,049
P for trend < 0.0001 < 0.0001 < 0.0001