Cost comparison between open radical cystectomy, laparoscopic radical cystectomy, and robot-assisted radical cystectomy for patients with bladder cancer: a systematic review of segmental costs

Table 1 Characteristics of the included studies

Author	Country	Year	# of ORC case	# of LRC case	# of RARC case	Study Period	Study type (The name of databases used)
Bansal [13]	UK	2017	68		221	2011–2016	Single-institutional retrospective study
Bochner [23]	USA	2014	58		60	2010–2013	Single-institutional RCT
Martin [30]	USA	2011	14		19	2006-	Single-institutional retrospective study
Lee [22]	USA	2010	103		83	2002–2009	Single-institutional retrospective study
Smith [11]	USA	2010	20		20	2006-	Single-institutional retrospective study
Hermans [19]	Netherlands	2014	44	42		2005–2012	Single-institutional retrospective study
Zheng [20]	China	2012	65	45		2004–2011	Single-institutional retrospective study
Yu [26]	USA	2012	1444		224	2009	Administrative database study (Nationwide Inpatient Sample)
Leow [24]	USA	2014	34,672		2101	2004–2010	Administrative database study (Premier Perspective Darabase)
Hu [25]	USA	2016	7308		439	2002–2012	Administrative database study (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program and Medicare linked data)
Monn [27]	USA	2014	25,986		3733	2009–2011	Administrative Database study (Nationwide Impatient Sample)

The characteristics of the 11 studies that compared ORC to LRC or ORC to RARC. The studies consisted of six single-institutional retrospective studies, a single-institutional RCT, and four database studies. The characteristics included information on authors, countries where the studies were performed, year of publication, number of cases (ORC, LRC or RARC), study periods, and study types. RCT Randomized controlled trial

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