Cost-effectiveness of mini-laparotomy in patients with colorectal cancers: A propensity scoring matching approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Surgical technique process innovations are expected to generally incur no additional cost but gain better quality. Whether a mini-laparotomy surgery (MLS) in the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) is more cost effective than conventional open surgery had not been well examined. The objective of this study was to apply cost-effectiveness approaches to investigate the cost effectiveness of adopting MLS compared with open surgery 1 year following resection in CRC patients.

Research design

A prospective non-randomized cohort study design.

Setting

An academic medical center.

Participants

A total of 224 patients who received elective MLS and 339 who received conventional surgery; after propensity score matching, 212 pairs were included for analysis.

In

SUBMITTER: Chiu HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326502 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature