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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone Marrow Transplant. 2012 Jul 9;48(2):294–300. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2012.133

Table 4.

Medical costs and resource utilization from date of transplant hospitalization to day 100 post-transplantation by age at transplantation

Cost category Age at transplant
≤ 20 years 21–40 years 41–60 years > 60 years
Autologous HCT
Sample size 132 180 892 474
Total days hospitalized, median (IQR) 28 (22–39) 20 (17–25) 18 (15–22) 18 (15–22)
Number of outpatient clinic visits, median (range) 21 (12–30) 11 (7–18) 11 (7–18) 12 (7–18)
Total costs, median (IQR) $158,502 (115,542–255,544) $106,929 (79,084–132,141) $98,755 (75,650–132,141) $87,374 (56,033–120,747)
Total outpatient costs, median (IQR) $23,316 (8,420–44,712) $7,623 (2,704–16,974) $8,000 (3,966–15,504) $5,348 (1,340–10,583)
Total inpatient costs, median (IQR) $125,358 (96,917–212,197) $94,454 (72,599–134,981) $87,637 (63,990–118,303) $79,001 (52,789–107,334)
 Costs for HCT hospitalization, median (IQR) $100,082 (66,290–139,767) $89,509 (69,424–121,664) $82,564 (62,013–108,942) $74,997 (50,760–104,354)
 Costs for subsequent hospitalization, median (IQR) $2,086 (0–70,950) $0 (0-0) $0 (0-0) $0 (0-0)
Allogeneic HCT
Sample size 221 231 652 216
Total days hospitalized, median (IQR) 42 (32–57) 29 (23–43) 28 (22–41) 29 (21–43)
Number of outpatient clinic visits, median (range) 21 (14–30) 21 (10–31) 22 (13–32) 24 (13–32)
Total costs, median (IQR) $303,709 (202,487–455,868) $202,962 (138,545–306,313) $192,228 (142,784–289,938) $155,548 (111,727–267,893)
Total outpatient costs, median (IQR) $27,751 (12,399–49,918) $16,937 (6,820–36,019) $20,949 (10,075–41,683) $17,916 (4,829–35,921)
Total inpatient costs, median (IQR) $258,790 (172,448–402,719) $173,954 (120,865–273,036) $164,309 (114,724–241,904) $133,767 (93,265–233,221)
 Costs for HCT hospitalization, median (IQR) $224,180 (154,236–335,909) $160,987 (110,613–244,312) $145,457 (103,907–199,464) $115,566 (81,277–186,135)
 Costs for subsequent hospitalization, median (IQR) $0 (0–31,869) $0 (0–17,455) $0 (0–22,346) $0 (0–22,776)

HCT – hematopoietic cell transplantation; IQR – interquartile range