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Is robotic surgery cost-effective
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Urology. 22:61-65
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012.
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Abstract
- With the expanding use of new technology in the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa), the financial burden on the healthcare system and the individual has been important. Robotics offer many potential advantages to the surgeon and the patient. We assessed the potential cost-effectiveness of robotics in urological surgery and performed a comparative cost analysis with respect to other potential treatment modalities.The direct and indirect costs of purchasing, maintaining, and operating the robot must be compared to alternatives in treatment of localized PCa. Some expanding technologies including intensity-modulated radiation therapy are significantly more expensive than robotic surgery. Furthermore, the benefits of robotics including decreased length of stay and return to work are considerable and must be measured when evaluating its cost-effectiveness.Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery comes at a high cost but can become cost-effective in mostly high-volume centers with high-volume surgeons. The device when utilized to its maximum potential and with eventual market-driven competition can become affordable.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Urology
medicine.medical_treatment
Treatment outcome
MEDLINE
Prostate cancer
medicine
Humans
Robotic surgery
Medical physics
Hospital Costs
Program Development
Prostatectomy
Evidence-Based Medicine
business.industry
Prostatic Neoplasms
Robotics
Evidence-based medicine
medicine.disease
Treatment Outcome
surgical procedures, operative
Surgery, Computer-Assisted
Laparoscopy
business
Healthcare system
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09630643
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Urology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2126b0fadfc855ca4fd98fbace94a6e9