Table 5. Cost analysis, mean cost for each patient for measured variables stratified for surgical technique.
| Surgical technique | p | |||||||
| Dynamic hip screw | Nail | |||||||
| Mean±SD | € | Range | Mean±SD | € | Range | Mean difference | ||
| Hospitalization (€) | 3,410±1,041 | 800-4,800 | 3,674±1,388 | 1,600-7,600 | - 264 | 0.344 | ||
| Operating room (€) | 413±114 | 225-675 | 328±300 | 188-600 | 75 | <0.001* | ||
| Transfusions (€) | 29.4±43.0 | 0-185 | 57.0±75.8 | 0-308 | -27.6 | 0.040* | ||
| Device (€) | 302.71 | 581.80 | - | - | ||||
| Total cost (€) | 4,165±1,053 | 1,553-5,590 | 4,644±1,403 | 2,484-8,693 | - 478 | 0.092 | ||
| SD: Standard deviation. | ||||||||