Direct Medical Costs of Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Surgery in a Belgian University Hospital

Objectives: The recent trend to optimize the efficiency of health-care systems requires objective clinical and economic data. European data on the cost of surgical procedures to repair or palliate congenital heart disease in pediatric patients are lacking. Methods: A single-center study was conducted. Bootstrap analysis of variance and bootstrap independent t test assessed the excess direct medical costs associated with minor and major complications in nine surgical procedure types, from a health-care payer perspective. Generalized linear models with log-link function and inverse Gaussian fami... Mehr ...