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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Jan;76(1):84–94. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182ab1ae3

Table 3.

RVU values for each case type and the difference of the means

OPEN OPEN Laparoscopic Laparoscopic
Average ELECTIVE EMERGENT Difference Mean ELECTIVE EMERGENT Difference Mean
RVU BILIARY 17.54 17.45 −0.09 11.86 11.87 0.01
RVU COLORECTAL 26.01 25.7 −0.31 27.51 27.01 0.5
RVU HERNIA 9.73 10.29 0.56 9.5 11.43 1.93*
*

Represents the only statistically significant difference in RVU due to small sample size for laparoscopic hernia cases