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The safety of telemedicine clinics as an alternative to in-person preoperative assessment for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with benign gallbladder disease: a retrospective cohort study
CONCLUSIONS: Our series showed that it is safe and feasible to assess and counsel patients for laparoscopic cholecystectomy remotely with a minimal cancellation rate on the day of operation. Further work is needed to understand the effect of remote consultations on patient satisfaction, its environmental impact, and possible benefits to healthcare economics to support its routine use in general surgery.PMID:37644474 | PMC:PMC10466851 | DOI:10.1186/s13037-023-00368-7
Source: Patient Safety in Surgery - August 29, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Tomas Urbonas Adil Siraj Lakha Emily King Sophia Pepes Carlo Ceresa Venkatesha Udupa Zahir Soonawalla Michael A Silva Alex Gordon-Weeks Srikanth Reddy Source Type: research

Economic analysis of open versus laparoscopic versus robotic hepatectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
ConclusionLLR ’s higher operative costs are offset by lower hospitalization costs compared to OLR leading to no statistically significant difference in total costs, while RLR appears to be a more expensive alternative approach.
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - March 19, 2021 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Opportunity cost in the economic evaluation of da Vinci robotic assisted surgery
Conclusions The opportunity cost is a quantity that must be included in the total cost of using a surgical technology within an economic cost analysis in the context of an economic evaluation.
Source: The European Journal of Health Economics - March 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Consumer Centricity: Changing what we know about Health Care
Consumer Centricity is about to change everything we know about health care. It is creating a health investment community where transparency is king and social exchange reinforces value. This is the rise of the consumer health investment marketplace. Technology is improving the conversations and exchange of data—social media (providing peer-to-peer information and counseling), quantifying technology (providing measures of health to the person without the need for clinical reporting), and financial advice (tune in to some of the social media pages for patient and cost advocacy). We are witnessing the handoff of health ca...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Cost Coverage Policy Insurance Source Type: blogs