Case-Matched Comparison of Clinical and Financial Outcome After Laparoscopic or Open Colorectal Surgery

Comparison of outcome and costs after laparoscopic and open colectomy.Previous studies comparing laparoscopic and open colectomy report conflicting results with regard to clinical outcome and costs.Laparoscopic colectomy patients from a prospective database were matched for age, gender, and disease-related grouping to patients who underwent the same operation by the open approach over the same period (2000 to 2001). Data for the latter group was...