Variation in hospital resource use and cost among surgical procedures using topical absorbable hemostats
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Variation in hospital resource use and cost among surgical procedures using topical absorbable hemostats
BACKGROUND Adjunctive hemostats are used to assist with the control of intraoperative bleeding. The most common types are flowables, gelatins, thrombins, and oxidized regenerated celluloses (ORCs). In the US, Surgicel(®) products are the only US Food and Drug Administration-approved ORCs. OBJECTIVE To compare the outcomes of health care resource utilization (HRU) and costs associated with usi...
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عنوان ژورنال: ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1178-6981
DOI: 10.2147/ceor.s88698