Table 3.
Difference in costs per patient between emergency and elective repair
Costs in Euro for the first of January 2014, when 1 Euro (€) equalled approximately 1.38 US Dollar. All costs are rounded to whole Euro’s. Nonparametric bootstrap techniques to derive a 95 % confidence interval were used CI is presented with lower and upper values between brackets
The values presented in bold are subcategories containing the sum of the aforementioned values
SD standard deviation, NICU neonatal intensive care unit, OPC outpatient clinic, CI confidence interval