Is it cost effective to monitor autologous breast reconstruction flaps after day 3?

13/04/2020 5 min
Is it cost effective to monitor autologous breast reconstruction flaps after day 3?

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Episode Synopsis

Will you send your autologous breast reconstruction patient home at day 3 after reading this paper?

ablonka EM, Lamelas AM, Kanchwala SK, Rhemtulla I, Smith ML. A Simplified
Cost-Utility Analysis of Inpatient Flap Monitoring after Microsurgical Breast
Reconstruction and Implications for Hospital Length of Stay. Plast Reconstr Surg.
2019 Oct;144(4):540e-549e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000006010

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