Study design

retrospective

Study time

2013.1-2018.12

Country

United States

Object

patients were required to be continuously enrolled with medical and prescription drug coverage from 180 days before to 365 days after inpatient prostatectomy

Inclusion criteria

(1) inpatient cases that were not coded with diagnosis-related group codes 707 or 708, (2) metastatic cancer cases, (3) pure laparoscopic approach owing to a very small number of cases, (4) discharges with extreme total payment in index hospitalization (<1% or >99%), and (5) negative payments for baseline or follow-up total payment

Robots remarks

RARP

Sample size

11457

Topic classification

Economy，Comparison of surgical techniques

Keypoint

Total cumulative cost in this study was similar between ORP and RARP 1 year post discharge

Year