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. 2020 Oct 7;21(8):1197–1209. doi: 10.1007/s10198-020-01235-3

Table 4.

Average resource use and costs during 1 year after randomization

Resource use (units/patient) Cost (€/patient)
CO-PCI MV-PCI Incremental CO-PCI MV-PCI Incremental p value
Number of urgent/staged PCIs 0.324 0.093 0.231 1052 302 751 < 0.001
Hospitalizations
ICU nights 7.832 7.526 0.305 7522 7229 293 0.679
Normal ward nights 5.246 5.820 − 0.574 1500 1664 − 164 0.432
Impatient days 2.138 3.758 − 1.620 611 1074 − 463 0.243
Emergency room visits 0.381 0.259 0.122 149 101 48 0.486
Number of renal rep. therapy
Continuous dialysis 0.044 0.093 − 0.049 35 75 − 40 0.013
Hemodiafiltration 0.031 0.028 0.003 29 26 3 0.806
Hemofiltration 0.025 0.034 − 0.009 24 33 − 9 0.494
Intermittent dialysis 0.016 0.012 0.003 4 3 1 0.731
Number renal failure long term 0.019 0.028 − 0.009 1211 1806 − 594 0.441
Stents 2.688 3.582 − 0.894 185 246 − 61 < 0.001
Angiography (minutes in fluoroscopy) 18.353 22.540 − 4.187 426 523 − 97 < 0.001
Number of ICDs 0.040 0.043 − 0.003 113 121 − 8 0.857
Number of ECMOs 0.062 0.102 − 0.040 600 984 − 384 0.066
Number of IABPs 0.090 0.080 0.010 115 102 12 0.655
Number of LVADs 0.140 0.118 0.023 6046 5074 972 0.407
Number of heart transplants 0.003 0.000 0.003 62 0 62 0.316
Number of investigations procedures
Scintigraphy 0.003 0.000 0.003 0 0 0 0.316
Stress-echocardiogram 0.000 0.015 − 0.015 0 0 0 0.025
MRI 0.006 0.000 0.006 2 0 2 0.156
Days of medications
Aspirin 12.545 13.250 − 0.706 0 0 − 0 0.570
Clopidogrel 6.274 6.666 − 0.392 70 74 − 4 0.720
Prasugrel 3.625 4.114 − 0.490 5 6 − 1 0.531
Ticagrelor 4.777 4.455 0.322 7 6 0 0.692
Vitamin-K-antagonists 1.628 1.407 0.221 3 3 0 0.687
GP IIb/IIIa-inhibitors 0.224 0.220 0.004 42 41 1 0.891
UF heparin 10.439 10.524 − 0.085 0 0 − 0 0.942
LMW heparin 1.620 2.584 − 0.964 25 39 − 15 0.118
Bivalirudin 0.050 0.068 − 0.018 25 34 − 9 0.326
Fondaparinux 0.380 0.573 − 0.193 0 1 − 0 0.566
Beta-blocker 10.465 10.035 0.430 94 90 4 0.713
ACE-inhibitor/AT-II-antagonist 9.503 8.743 0.760 14 13 1 0.499
Statins 11.095 11.043 0.052 43 43 0 0.965
Calcium-antagonist 1.734 1.308 0.426 0 0 0 0.416
Aldosterone-antagonist 3.690 4.082 − 0.392 4 5 − 0 0.664
Diuretics 9.042 8.048 0.994 0 0 0 0.376
Edoxaban 0.022 0.000 0.022 0 0 0 0.316
Apixaban 0.257 0.310 − 0.053 1 1 − 0 0.811
Rivaroxaban 0.595 0.121 0.474 1 0 1 0.035
Dabigatran 0.204 0.337 − 0.133 0 0 − 0 0.596
Catecholamine therapy 6.406 6.657 − 0.251 6 7 − 0 0.133
Work hours lost 154.642 139.022 15.620 5343 4803 540 0.365
Total 25,371 24,531 841 0.679
N 321 323 321 323

Medication are expressed in days receiving the standard dose, except for the case of GP IIb/IIIa-inhibitors, UF heparin, bivalirudin and catecholamine therapy, where proportion of patient receiving medication is shown