Cost-effectiveness of robotic-assisted versus conventional total knee arthroplasty: an analysis from a middle income country.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

 Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (RATKA) can enhance surgical precision. In middle-income countries (MICs), constrained fiscal space and the double burden of rising demand for high-cost technologies and competing public-health priorities-unlike high-income countries with broader fiscal headroom and low-income countries with limited adoption of expensive innovations-make adoption decisions for RATKA particularly challenging. We aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness analysis (using a cost-utility framework) of RATKA vs conventional TKA (COTKA) from a societal perspective in Thailand as a MIC.

Methods

 A discrete event simulation model was employed to compare the cost-effectiveness of unilateral RATKA with COTKA over 4.5 years from a societal

SUBMITTER: Ruangsomboon P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12489808 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature