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ArticleMedical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in two hospitals of Tehran city in 2014.

Fateme Arabi Basharic, Alireza OlyaeeManesh, Behzad Raei, Reza Goudarzi, Morteza Arab Zozani, Mohammad Ranjbar Ezzatabadi

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Article in Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The hundred most frequently cited studies on sleeve gastrectomy.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Fateme Arabi BasharicMashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Alireza OlyaeeManeshNational Institute for Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Behzad RaeiSchool of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reza GoudarziModeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Morteza Arab ZozaniIranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Mohammad Ranjbar EzzatabadiHealth Policy Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRKerman University of Medical Sciences · IRMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IRShahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services · IRTabriz University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

methodThis study was performed in two stages. Initially, a cross-sectional study was carried out for costing LSG and LRYGB in Rasoul Akram and Bahman hospitals in Tehran in the year 2014. Direct costs for each surgical procedure were calculated according to the average time of surgery in both the private and public sectors. In the second stage, using Outcome (ΔBMI) collected by means of a systematic review study and cost data; cost effectiveness of two surgical procedures was examined by ICER analysis and compared with threshold limit. The Perspective of this analysis was health system.

Indexed as

Cost-effectivenessLaparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypassLaparoscopic sleeve gastrectomyTehran

Identifiers

PMID29445651
PMCPMC5804472
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