Table 3.

Length of Stay (LOS) and Costs for Rasburicase Monotherapy Versus Combined Therapy With Allopurinol^a.

	Rasburicase Monotherapy	Combination Therapyb	P Value
Hospitalization cost	$35 843	$46 672	.0059
Mean duration of rasburicase use (days)	2.7	2.1	.0820
Mean LOS (days)	10	15.4	.0067
Mean critical care LOS (days)	2.4	2.9	.3389

^aData from Eaddy et al.¹⁶

^bAllopurinol and rasburicase.