Clinical economics review: the health-care economic implications of minimal access gastrointestinal surgery.
This article reviews some of the health-care economic data that have been acquired in recent assessments of minimal access surgery of the digestive tract, with particular reference to laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laparoscopic surgery for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease.
University of Leeds, Academic Surgical Unit, St James' University Hospital, UK.
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Guillou
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Windsor
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Nejim
D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000191:economics*; D016896:Treatment Outcome