Table 2: Total cost per major cardiovascular event associated with CAD over a 3-month period
	CAD-related event; cost, $*
Variable	MI	CABG	PTCA	Stroke	TIA
Ambulance trips	94	10	17	144	22
Hospital care	8 900	19 371	8 696	19 911	2 200
Physician consultations	335	408	201	495	212
Visits by allied health care workers	90	143	49	1 702	0
Laboratory investigations and procedures	231	968	605	148	532
Outpatient prescriptions	140	173	196	126	125
Total	9 790	21 073	9 764	22 526	3 091
*In 1995-96.

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