ArticleSurgical endoscopy2020
One-stop routing for surgical interventions: a cost-analysis of endoscopic groin repair.
Article in Surgical endoscopy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Analysis of hospitalization costs in adult inguinal hernia: based on quantile regression model.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundSingle-visit (SV) totally extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair is an efficient service without impairment of safety or complication rate. Data on the economic impact of this approach are rare. The aim of this study was to compare the costs between the SV TEP and the regular TEP in an employed healthy population from a hospital and societal point of view.
methodsRetrospectively collected hospital costs and prospectively collected societal costs were obtained from patients treated between July 2016 and January 2018. Outcome measures consisted of all documented institutional care, productivity loss and medical consumption.
resultsFor analysing the hospital costs, a total of 116 SV patients were matched to 116 regular patients. The hospital costs of a mean SV patient were €1148.78 compared to €1242.84 for a regular patient, with a mean difference of €94.06. Prospective analyses of 50 SV patients and 50 regular patients demonstrated higher societal costs for a mean regular patient (€2188.33) compared to a mean SV patient (€1621.44). The mean total cost difference between a SV TEP repair and a regular TEP repair equalled €660.95 corresponding to a 19.3% decrease in costs.
conclusionsThis comprehensive cost-analysis showed that in an employed, healthy population, the SV TEP repair outprices the regular TEP repair, with savings of €660.95 per patient, reflecting a 19.3% decrease in costs. This routing is mainly interesting from a societal point of view as the difference is mainly impacted by a decrease in societal costs.
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