Table 1: Average resource utilization values for 5 major cardiovascular events* associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) in Canada over a 3-month period
Variable	MI	CABG	PTCA	Stroke	TIA
No. of ambulance trips	1	0	0	1	0
Length of hospital stay, d	8	9	3	37	2
No. of physician consultations	11	15	6	19	6
No. of visits by allied health care workers	3	7	1	69	1
No. of laboratory investigations and procedures	17	16	9	9	9
No. of outpatient prescriptions	11	10	2	7	7
Total	51	57	21	142	24
*MI = myocardial infarction, CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting, PTCA = percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, TIA = transient ischemic attack

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