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Fig. 1 | Journal of Intensive Care

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From: Temporal trends of medical cost and cost-effectiveness in sepsis patients: a Japanese nationwide medical claims database

Fig. 1

Temporal change in cost-effectiveness in sepsis patients between 2010 and 2017. The bar plot depicts the relationship between the year of hospital admission on the x-axis and effective cost per survivor on the y-axis. The effective cost per survivor was calculated as follows: the sum of the medical costs of all patients/number of survivors per year. Effective cost per survivor: − $1806/year [95% CI − $2432 to − $1179], p = 0.001. The coefficient was calculated using a linear regression analysis

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