Regional variation in cost of neonatal intensive care for extremely preterm infants

Rolnitsky, Asaph; Urbach, David; Unger, Sharon; Bell, Chaim M.

doi:10.1186/s12887-021-02600-8

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Number of extremely premature infants admitted, length of Stay, Total cost and daily cost by gestational age and province, excludes Canadian provinces of Quebec and Prince Edward Island, and the Canadian territories

From: Regional variation in cost of neonatal intensive care for extremely preterm infants

Province	Gestational Age (Weeks)	n	%n	Length of Stay (Days)					Cost (CAD)					Daily Cost (CAD)
Province	Gestational Age (Weeks)	n	%n	Min.	Median	Mean	Max.	IQR	min.	Median	Mean	Max.	IQR	Min.	Median	Mean	Max.	IQR
All	23	699	10.08%	1	1	21.4	272	6	950	2294	45,978.8	743,360	23,329	633	2012	2622	146,939	1101
	24	933	13.46%	1	21	53.7	1011	103	645	55,290	112,767.5	1,577,166	220,515	645	2379	2627.1	84,852	1083
	25	1065	15.36%	1	55	59	415	94	1422	97,398	123,043	816,337	201,981	722	2186	2516	94,451	1116
	26	1227	17.70%	1	56	56.5	270	74	813	87,436	109,685	662,927	124,666	496	1943	2191.8	62,612	1161
	27	1366	19.71%	1	48	49.7	395	55	813	72,193	90,246	813,162	77,111	407	1789	2196.5	71,547	1056
	28	1642	23.69%	1	40	41	371	52	804	58,778	71,611.5	599,894	65,714	581	1653	1914.3	32,599	866
	< 26	2697	38.9%	1	17	47.4	1011	91	645	44,482	99,515.1	1,577,166	174,862	633	2179	2582	146,939	1143
	23–28	6932		1	41	48	1011	76	645	66,668	92,879	1,577,166	120,631	407	1940	2278.8	146,939	1103
AB	23	113	8.2%	1	2	35.1	171	72	2018	9847	94,980	743,360	192,864	1769	2763	4400	146,939	1513
	24	198	14.3%	1	35	53.5	164	102	2018	99,551	142,704	576,323	266,083	1125	2812	3123	7446	1246
	25	218	15.8%	1	60	57.8	234	81	2018	127,449	147,628	610,540	198,446	891	2621	3213.4	91,423	1011
	26	235	17.0%	1	60	55.8	159	62	1836	120,062	140,598	662,927	130,200	1066	2618	2734	8423	1334
	27	270	19.5%	1	48	47.1	141	45	2021	94,078	105,924	352,982	75,042	971	2182	2491.6	9659	1047
	28	349	25.2%	1	35	37.5	122	44	1836	71,281	83,126	453,104	76,878	944	2144	2392.2	4925	953
	< 26	529	38.3%	1	40	51.3	234	97	2018	102,602	134,539	743,360	241,644	891	2754	3433.2	146,939	1190
	23–28	1383		1	44	47.8	234	67	1836	93,151	117,008	743,360	129,602	891	2500	2867.8	146,939	1165
BC	23	76	8.5%	1	1	25	182	7	1018	2165	52,508	582,267	29,772	1017	1780	2161	4913	729
	24	113	12.6%	1	68	69.1	386	112	1537	111,392	137,693	788,913	228,354	1081	2024	2223	3943	936
	25	124	13.8%	1	48	59.2	415	99	1546	93,312	115,980	816,337	195,154	947	2118	2261	4146	868
	26	164	18.3%	1	70	63.2	212	82	1251	93,184	111,824	458,446	146,223	778	1851	1910.4	3979	926
	27	182	20.3%	1	64	61.3	395	46	1527	77,792	98,460	813,162	61,571	612	1546	1736.2	4025	897
	28	237	26.5%	1	47	48.4	371	49	1336	64,509	74,783	599,894	55,101	582	1463	1667.5	3593	747
	< 26	313	34.9%	1	29	54.5	415	100	1018	63,487	108,407	816,337	198,000	947	2024	2223.2	4913	909
	23–28	896		1	52	55.9	415	82	1018	76,735	98,118	816,337	129,361	582	1777	1920	4913	893
MB	23	36	10.2%	1	1	11.8	137	0	1023	1782	22,376	271,603	657	1023	1750	1930	4819	140
	24	38	10.8%	1	16	67	235	120	1652	52,766	138,972	565,165	244,226	1024	2224	2452	5265	1148
	25	60	17.0%	1	92	74.3	206	115	1652	117,909	149,080	507,058	231,558	893	2292	2483.4	5801	1460
	26	70	19.9%	1	92	75	175	97	1496	113,850	140,835	297,071	182,751	784	2023	2205.6	5735	1056
	27	64	18.2%	1	75	63.8	130	64	885	98,092	112,683.7	291,343	158,379	760	1964	2690.1	50,717	1265
	28	84	23.9%	1	59	58.3	179	28	1585	80,829	96,258	305,679	18,603	740	1530	1806.7	5361	773
	< 26	134	38.1%	1	12	55.4	235	112	1022	28,122	112,174	565,165	239,201	893	1995	2325.9	5801	1058
	23–28	352		1	63	61.5	235	97	885	84,423	114,168.1	565,165	204,335	740	1862	2244.3	50,717	1058
NB	23	9	6.52%	1	1	1.8	8	0	1515	1608	5703	35,324	1014	1515	1608	2269	4415	1014
	24	16	11.59%	1	14	22.3	110	16	1860	29,330	49,574	237,209	34,149	1439	2348	2399	3634	484
	25	8	5.80%	2	29	39	108	62	7203	57,356	72,741	202,599	104,119	1489	2289	2625	4489	1472
	26	26	18.84%	1	53	49.7	101	65	1453	73,990	106,394	223,810	154,912	664	2428	2306.2	4095	1217
	27	34	24.64%	1	68	57	106	38	1596	83,932	89,968	237,209	48,127	628	1494	1914	13,178	659
	28	45	32.61%	1	57	50.9	84	24	1480	74,260	76,349	211,229	34,141	631	1396	1636	3638	865
	< 26	33	23.9%	1	3	20.8	110	16	1515	12,951	43,226	237,209	42,222	1439	2257	2418	4489	921
	23–28	138		1	54	45	110	55	1453	72,956	77,444	237,209	55,951	628	1661	2018	13,178	1242
NL	23	17	14.29%	1	1	13.5	185	6	1818	1907	24,678	278,211	16,828	1504	1907	2382	5112	843
	24	15	12.61%	1	113	98.4	426	134	1668	236,013	188,786	895,475	257,035	1356	2041	2272	3853	810
	25	19	15.97%	1	125	109.2	248	33	2758	265,420	250,195	533,730	116,870	1148	2230	2568	4937	680
	26	17	14.29%	1	88	88.8	260	97	1473	197,098	188,131	661,937	262,666	984	2119	2125	3205	1240
	27	22	18.49%	1	81	82.5	260	32	1668	219,382	179,956	608,293	161,148	1131	2079	2203	4072	1263
	28	29	24.37%	1	68	62.7	137	21	1659	107,445	128,643	265,420	120,545	756	1937	2179.9	3981	1279
	< 26	51	42.9%	1	23	74.1	426	127	1668	98,764	156,961	895,475	263,124	1148	2092	2419	5112	916
	23–28	119		1	69	75	426	110	1473	107,446	158,764	895,475	244,145	756	2079	2278.8	5112	1100
NS	23	17	7.5%	1	7	52.2	199	95	1584	68,400	98,682	289,819	172,406	1211	1778	6046	70,843	464
	24	39	17.3%	1	106	117.6	1011	123	1626	230,891	220,282	1,577,166	250,440	696	2384	2307	4091	955
	25	27	11.9%	1	100	95.2	346	66	1765	205,783	181,488	607,373	149,881	935	2021	2123.8	4236	762
	26	35	15.5%	1	87	91.6	220	36	1503	202,290	174,881	475,022	147,518	753	1961	2024.5	3445	982
	27	49	21.7%	1	78	78.4	193	33	1599	102,039	137,757	436,276	118,970	703	1599	1786.9	3788	795
	28	59	26.1%	1	66	66	181	25	2093	89,249	112,667	300,851	37,030	930	1517	1748.8	4086	840
	< 26	83	36.7%	1	99	96.9	1011	126	1584	175,442	182,756	1,577,166	249,140	696	2077	3013.1	70,843	933
	23–28	226		1	77	84	1011	53	1503	103,515	153,482	1,577,166	155,619	696	1778	2264.1	70,843	988
ON	23	395	11.3%	1	1	17.9	272	2	950	2086	33,727.4	523,396	7079	633	1693	2120	13,449	1079
	24	464	13.3%	1	13	44.4	343	90	645	35,399	82,091.4	636,658	144,203	645	2088	2539.8	84,852	977
	25	552	15.8%	1	42	52.5	364	84	1422	78,565	95,991	743,222	136,611	722	1956	2277	94,451	909
	26	616	17.6%	1	49	49	270	70	813	71,306	82,063	542,585	87,721	496	1713	2007.5	62,612	922
	27	683	19.6%	1	38	40.8	218	55	813	54,472	64,745	456,931	63,708	407	1582	2149.2	71,547	807
	28	781	22.4%	1	29	33.6	165	45	804	40,524	50,655.8	454,455	58,179	581	1494	1737.5	32,599	632
	< 26	1411	40.4%	1	9	40.2	364	75	645	27,614	73,989.9	743,222	108,605	633	1957	2319	94,451	1064
	23–28	3491		1	29	40.4	364	65	645	48,144	68,385.5	743,222	87,812	407	1712	2100.9	94,451	962
SK	23	36	11.0%	1	1	12.5	118	0	1876	2098	31,655	302,674	1845	1876	2098	2805	16,285	441
	24	50	15.3%	1	12	43.1	151	100	1728	54,140	116,202	355,019	276,994	795	2746	2945.8	5958	1446
	25	57	17.4%	1	92	78.8	214	85	2048	273,698	215,947	646,856	197,285	812	2906	2902.2	5434	865
	26	64	19.6%	1	78	68.1	193	88	1942	160,914	167,326	368,115	229,716	1004	2722	2743	5263	1187
	27	62	19.0%	1	79	73	136	33	2699	233,511	186,384	334,666	166,386	904	2736	2750.5	5352	1565
	28	58	17.7%	1	44	56.6	204	102	1630	116,113	161,897	331,300	162,243	1108	2673	2836	13,886	2160
	< 26	143	43.7%	1	18	49.6	214	102	1728	62,846	134,676	646,856	283,360	795	2657	2893	16,285	1257
	23–28	327		1	69	59.7	214	95	1630	122,526	155,698	646,856	265,411	795	2695	2826.5	16,285	1462

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