RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the inpatient cost of routine (ie, without emergent conversion to open repair during the hospital stay) endovascular stent-graft placement in a consecutive series of @entity1 undergoing elective endovascular repair of @entity1028 ( @entity1028 ) at a single institution. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Inpatient hospital costs of 91 @entity1 who underwent initial elective endovascular repair of @entity1028 were analyzed retrospectively. All @entity1 had participated in clinical trials at the authors' institution during the previous 6 years. Financial data were derived from the hospital's cost-accounting system; additional procedural data were collected from a departmental database and with chart review. Stent-graft and professional costs were excluded. RESULTS: The mean total cost for endovascular repair was  11,842 (standard deviation [SD],  5,127), mean procedure time was 149 minutes (SD, 79 minutes), and mean length of stay was 3.5 days (SD, 2.3 days). Total cost depended on stent-graft type (means,  12,428 [bifurcated] vs  9,622 [tube]; P = .0002) and strongly correlated with procedure time and length of hospital stay (r = 0.78 and 0.66, respectively; P < .0001). Ninety-six percent of total costs for all @entity1 were attributable to the following departments: operating theater (31%), radiology (31%), nursing (22%), and anesthesia (12%). CONCLUSION: Overall costs are greater with bifurcated than with tube stent-grafts. Total procedure-related costs are divided relatively equally between the operating theater, the radiology department, and the combination of the nursing and anesthesia departments.

Inpatient costs of routine endovascular repair of XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity1028 :: ('MESH:D017544', 'Disease') :: ['AAA', 'abdominal aortic aneurysm']
@entity1028 :: (MESH:D017544,Disease) :: ['abdominal aortic aneurysm']
