Cost impact of procalcitonin-guided decision making on duration of antibiotic therapy for suspected early-onset sepsis in neonates

Table 6 Mean duration of hospitalization and costs of care excluding duration of hospitalization due to SAEs, and excluding neonates with protocol violations

	PCT-guided decision making	Standard care	P value
Excluding SAEs
Duration of hospitalization in hours	97 [48, 139]	107 [64, 146]	< 0.001*
Total costs of health care in euro	2166 [1132, 3084]	2349 [1387, 3087]	< 0.001*
Excluding neonates with protocol violations
Duration of hospitalization in hours	162 [67, 181]	159 [77, 181]	0.035*
Total costs of health care in euro	3735 [1496, 4159]	3578 [1636, 4293]	0.412

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