![]() The total expenses related to surgical hospitalizations were more than $10 billion in all these years. The increment of surgical cost was almost 200%. The cost of these procedures has increased tremendously in the last years. An increment of 20.42% was observed in the number of surgeries in this period and nowadays nearly 3 million operations are performed annually. There were 32,659,513 non-cardiac surgeries performed in Brazil in thirteen years. The trend analysis was performed by linear regression model. The results were presented as sum, average and percentage. The following variables were studied: number of surgeries, in-hospital expenses, blood transfusion related costs, length of stay and case fatality rates. We collected information from DATASUS, a national public health system database. This is a retrospective cohort study that investigated the time window from 1995 to 2007.
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