Fig. 1

Mean costs per patient. a 90-day time horizon. b 30-day time horizon. Legend: Mean costs per patient for the three treatment strategies taking four different perspectives and applying a 90-day (a) and 30-day (b) time horizon. Point estimates and confidence intervals are generated using the 50^th, 2.5^th and 97.5^th percentiles of 2,000 bootstrapping samples. Exact numbers are given in Additional file 1: Table S3