Table 2.

Hospital length of stay, costs, and emergency room and clinic visits based on operative approach

	ORIF (n = 31)	Percutaneous (n = 63)	P value
Initial hospitalization
Average LOS (d)	9.1	6.1	0.043
Average time (admission-surgery)	2.4	1.5	0.062
Average time (surgery-discharge)	6.6	4.6	0.045
Average LOS costs	$45300	$31710	0.043
Average anesthesia costs	$4265	$2496	0.001
Average surgical costs	$13490	$9089	< 0.001
Average ancillary costs	$27811	$18476	0.239
Average clinic visits	4.1	3.5	0.123
Average ER visits	1.1	1.0	0.465
Readmissions
Average LOS (d)	5.5	5.7	0.954
Average days to readmission	13.5	16.5	0.552
Average ER visits	0.0	0.5	0.267
Average clinic visits	5.0	3.5	0.323

LOS: Length of stay.