Cost-utility studies in upper limb orthopaedic surgery
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Cost-utility analyses in orthopaedic surgery.
BACKGROUND The rising cost of health care has increased the need for the orthopaedic community to understand and apply economic evaluations. We critically reviewed the literature on orthopaedic cost-utility analysis to determine which subspecialty areas are represented, the cost-utility ratios that have been utilized, and the quality of the present literature. METHODS We searched the English-...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Bone & Joint Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2049-4394,2049-4408
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.100b11.bjj-2018-0246.r1