Clinical trial NCT01872364: Dominican Republic Mission Cost Analysis
Official title: A Material Cost-Minimization Analysis for Hernia Repairs and Minor Procedures During a Surgical Mission in the Dominican Republic
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Hernia
Hydrocele
Keywords: Hernia repair
Hydrocelectomy
Global Health
Global Disease Burden
Surgical Mission
Dominican Republic
Cost-minimization
Procedural cost
Material cost
Item utilization
Excision of benign cutaneous mass
Minor procedure
Lead sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Barnes-Jewish Hospital
First posted: 2013-06-07
Enrollment: 110
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients presenting to the Institute of Latin American Concern Center for surgical procedure, previously screened by local healthcare workers.

Brief summary: Expenditures on material supplies and medications constitute the greatest per capita costs for surgical missions. We hypothesized that supply acquisition at nonprofit organization cost would lead to significant cost-savings compared to supply acquisition at US academic institution costs from the provider perspective for hernia repairs and minor procedures during a surgical mission in the Dominican Republic.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients presenting to the Institute of Latin American Concern Center for surgical procedure, previously screened by local healthcare workers.
* Require hernia surgery, hydrocelectomy, excision of benign cutaneous mass.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Did not require hernia surgery, hydrocelectomy, excision of benign cutaneous mass.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Expenditure on material supplies and medications
timeFrame: within 2 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: St Louis
country: United States
facility: Washington University in St Louis
state: Missouri
Study officials:
affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
name: Jaime A Cavallo, MD, MPHS
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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