Hospitalization costs in 2008 for clipping and coiling of unruptured intracranial aneurysms

Variable	Clipping			Coiling			P Clipping vs Coiling
Variable	Median Cost (US $2008)	IQR (US $2008)	P	Median Cost (US $2008)	IQR (US $2008)	P	P Clipping vs Coiling
All patients	24,123	18,775–31,523	–	26,018	17,544–37,001	–	.04
Sex
Male	25,236	19,463–35,432	.06	25,954	16,917–38,799	.91	.69
Female	23,724	18,251–31,033	.06	26,018	17,793–36,038	.91	.008
Age (yr)
<65	24,288	18,237–31,578	.95	26,476	17,865–36,264	.52	.03
≥65	23,568	19,039–31,275	.95	25,121	16,850–37,416	.52	.63
Discharge status
Home/short-term facility	23,574	18,233–29,941	<.001	25,734	17,436–35,846	<.001	<.001
Long-term facility	36,188	21,831–55,308		40,502	24,289–50,108		.51
Dead	68,165	32,972–100,211		56,020	–		.77