This study aims to evaluate COVID-19 in-hospital costs and identify predictors at a patient-level in Brazil. is multicenter, prospective cohort that applied time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) method five Brazilian reference centers for treatment. Patients hospitalized between March August 2020 (first wave of the disease) had their status confirmed by reverse transcription-polymerase cha...

UNLABELLED Kidney transplantation is the optimal therapy for the majority of patients with end-stage renal disease. However, the cost and health outcomes of transplantation have not been assessed in a middle-income nation with a low volume of transplantation, such as Malaysia. AIM AND METHODS This study used microcosting methods to determine the cost and health outcomes of living and deceased...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Scalds represent the most frequent pediatric burn injury. Inpatient nonsurgical wound management of small or medium-size burns (<20% total body surface area) represents a significant proportion of the cost of care, with nanocrystalline silver (NCS) and silver sulphadiazine (SSD) among the most commonly used dressings. Although several articles have described healing outcome...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy provides significant benefits in terms of reducing risk of local recurrence and death from rectal cancer. Despite this, up-to-date cost estimates for radiotherapy are lacking, potentially inhibiting policy and decision-making. Our objective was to generate an up-to-date estimate of the cost of traditional radiotherapy for rectal cancer and model the impact of a range of ...