Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study
Introduction: Cape Verde is a middle-income country benefiting from a health agreement with Portugal. The purpose of this study is to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the enablement of Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement. Material and Methods: We assessed records from the Orthopaedic Dep...
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| description | Introduction: Cape Verde is a middle-income country benefiting from a health agreement with Portugal. The purpose of this study is to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the enablement of Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement.
Material and Methods: We assessed records from the Orthopaedic Department of Baptista de Sousa Hospital and the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health regarding hip fracture with indication for total hip replacement and hip arthritis cases evacuated to Portugal. We also analysed the direct costs of the treatment, and hypothesised the costs of performing total hip replacement in Cape Verde. We then conducted a cost-benefit analysis.
Results: From 2011 to 2016, 126 patients (135 hips) would have indication for total hip replacement if it was possible to do it in Cape Verde. The performance of the procedure in Cape Verde would have resulted in a global benefit of €80 644.08, and a benefit of €597.36/per patient.
Discussion: Our analysis indicates that the enablement of Cape Verde to autonomously perform total hip replacement on patients with hip fracture and arthritis would have a positive financial return. Total costs were underestimated due to the impossibility to calculate indirect costs. Enabling Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement would provide the recommended treatment for patients and reduce the socio-psychological impact of evacuation.
Conclusion: Enabling Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement would represent an expense reduction, and an improvement of the country’s quality of healthcare and autonomy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-141eac9353684914b3070160c86f35b92022-12-22T03:12:54ZengOrdem dos MédicosActa Médica Portuguesa0870-399X1646-07582018-12-01311273874110.20344/amp.104054801Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit StudyAndreia Mercier Nunes0Helena Canhão1Tito Lívio Rodrigues2Orthopaedics and Trauma Department. Hospital de São Francisco Xavier. Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental. Lisboa.CEDOC EpiDoC Unit. NOVA Medical School. Universidade de Lisboa. Lisboa.Orthopaedics and Trauma Department. Hospital Dr. Baptista de Sousa. Mindelo. São Vicente.Introduction: Cape Verde is a middle-income country benefiting from a health agreement with Portugal. The purpose of this study is to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the enablement of Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement. Material and Methods: We assessed records from the Orthopaedic Department of Baptista de Sousa Hospital and the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health regarding hip fracture with indication for total hip replacement and hip arthritis cases evacuated to Portugal. We also analysed the direct costs of the treatment, and hypothesised the costs of performing total hip replacement in Cape Verde. We then conducted a cost-benefit analysis. Results: From 2011 to 2016, 126 patients (135 hips) would have indication for total hip replacement if it was possible to do it in Cape Verde. The performance of the procedure in Cape Verde would have resulted in a global benefit of €80 644.08, and a benefit of €597.36/per patient. Discussion: Our analysis indicates that the enablement of Cape Verde to autonomously perform total hip replacement on patients with hip fracture and arthritis would have a positive financial return. Total costs were underestimated due to the impossibility to calculate indirect costs. Enabling Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement would provide the recommended treatment for patients and reduce the socio-psychological impact of evacuation. Conclusion: Enabling Cape Verde to perform total hip replacement would represent an expense reduction, and an improvement of the country’s quality of healthcare and autonomy.https://actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/10405Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip/economicsCabo VerdeCost-Benefit AnalysisQuality of Health Care |
| spellingShingle | Andreia Mercier Nunes Helena Canhão Tito Lívio Rodrigues Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study Acta Médica Portuguesa Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip/economics Cabo Verde Cost-Benefit Analysis Quality of Health Care |
| title | Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study |
| title_full | Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study |
| title_fullStr | Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study |
| title_short | Enabling Cape Verde to Perform Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Benefit Study |
| title_sort | enabling cape verde to perform total hip replacement cost benefit study |
| topic | Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip/economics Cabo Verde Cost-Benefit Analysis Quality of Health Care |
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