Table 3.

Demographic characteristics and AHC in of patients admitted to PICU and pediatric ward.

	PICU	Pediatric ward	p-value
	n = 18	n = 513
Age (days)	51.17 (± 68.65)	79.72 (± 60.17)	0.049
Males (%)	66.67	48.73	Ns
LOS (days)	6.28 (± 1.60)	4.59 (± 2.20)	0.001
Total cost (€)	159,479.89 (± 2,056.53)	2,799,306.04 (± 2,037.79)
Mean cost (€)	8,859.99 (± 2,577.61)	5,456.73 (± 1,919.52)	<0.0001

Data are shown as the number of cases (%) or mean (± SD).