A Material Cost-Minimization Analysis for Hernia Repairs and Minor Procedures During a Surgical Mission in the Dominican Republic
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 110
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Expenditure on material supplies and medications
研究概览
简要总结
Expenditures on material supplies and medications constitute the greatest per capita costs for surgical missions. We hypothesized that supply acquisition at nonprofit organization cost would lead to significant cost-savings compared to supply acquisition at US academic institution costs from the provider perspective for hernia repairs and minor procedures during a surgical mission in the Dominican Republic.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients presenting to the Institute of Latin American Concern Center for surgical procedure, previously screened by local healthcare workers.
- •Require hernia surgery, hydrocelectomy, excision of benign cutaneous mass.
排除标准
- •Did not require hernia surgery, hydrocelectomy, excision of benign cutaneous mass.
结局指标
主要结局
Expenditure on material supplies and medications
时间窗: within 2 weeks
Using quick response (QR) codes for accurate consumption accounting, non-profit and US academic institution unit costs are associated with each item in an electronic inventory system. Medication doses are recorded and QR codes for consumed items are scanned into a record for each sampled procedure.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Jaime Cavallo
Postdoctorate Scholar
Washington University School of Medicine