Health care practitioners are under increasing pressure to identify and reduce the costs of their interventions. Cardiac surgical procedures have been studied extensively to determine which factors increase costs so the costs of future interventions can be reliably predicted. Knowing the cost components of surgical interventions identifies opportunities for increased efficiency and cost reduction. New technologic advances may initially defy cost reduction efforts until randomized controlled trials and cost analyses can be performed.
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