Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Most Common Orthopaedic Surgery Procedures: Knee Arthroscopy and Knee Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Is Prophylactic Intervention More Cost-effective Than the Treatment of Pathologic Fractures in Metastatic Bone Disease?

“…Although the clinical benefits of prophylactic stabilization have been well established, no studies to our knowledge, have provided a cost analysis comparing costs of this treatment option with the costs of providing care to patients after pathologic fractures have occurred. With the current healthcare focus on cost and value of treatments, physicians should be aware of relative costs of their treatment options [4,5,8,9,14,15,17].…”

Postoperative complications of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction after ambulatory surgery

“…1 Although the surgery has evolved considerably in recent years, it is not without complications since, at present, around 5---9% of patients suffer some kind of iatrogenic problem. 2 The current trend is toward performing the technique without hospital admission, that is, with less than 12 h of hospital stay (outpatient surgical procedure, OSP), although there is not enough evidence in the literature regarding its safety compared to performing it with hospital admission (non-OSP).…”

The Evolution and Prevalence of Knee Injuries: Repair at What Cost?

“…However, in nations with private health care, affording the surgery then becomes an issue. The average cost of an ACL reconstruction surgery is $10,326 US dollars (Lubowitz & Appleby, 2011). The median household income in the United States was $51,017 in 2012 (DeNavas-Walt et al, 2013).…”