Central Figure: Comparisons of costs associated with Primary and Staged Repair Strategies.

A. This notched box plots depicts the unadjusted observed outcomes: total 18-month cost (left) and cost-per-day-alive (right). The central line depicts the median value, notches the 95% confidence interval of the median, the top and bottom of the box depict the 25^th and 75^th percentiles, whiskers depict 1.5 × the interquartile range, and gray circles depict individual observations. Data are truncated at the 80^th percentile.

B. This Forest plot depicts the results of propensity score adjusted analyses. Depicted are the point estimate (diamond) and 95% CI (brackets). The cost ratio between primary repair and staged repair is depicted on the x-axis. The red dashed line marks a cost ratio of 1. The specific cost ratios, confidence intervals, and p-values are reproduced to the right of the graph.