Table 2.

Baseline provincial decision analysis

	Ontario (n=3522)			British Columbia (n=903)			Quebec (n=2010)
	BLC	WLC	Net	BLC	WLC	Net	BLC	WLC	Net
Initial costs	$26 165 385	$16 544 963	$9 620 422	$5 374 301	$3 310 268	2 064 033	$9 029 938	$5 294 536	$3 735 401
Followup costs
No recurrence	$6 480 842	$5 804 944	$675 898	$1 526 481	$1 367 282	$159 199	$3 097 022	$2 774 029	$322 994
Recurrences	$8 049 965	$13 513 376	−$5 463 411	$1 606 304	$2 660 568	−$1 054 264	$2 558 788	$4 132 311	−$1 573 523
5-year costs (total)	$40 696 192	$35 863 283	$4 832 908	$8 507 086	$7 338 118	$1 168 968	$14 685 748	12 200 876	$2 484 872
Cost-difference/case			$1372			$1295			$1236
Events
Bed days (n)	7167	8212	−1045	1837	2105	−268	4,090	4687	−597
Bed days/patient	2.03	2.33	−0.30	2.03	2.33	−0.30	2.03	2.33	−0.30
Recurrences (n)	1351	1689	−338	346	433	−87	771	964	−193
Recurrences/patient	0.38	0.48	−0.10	0.38	0.48	−0.10	0.38	0.48	−0.10

BLC: blue light cystoscopy; WLC: white light cystoscopy.