Which anaesthetic agents are cost-effective in day surgery? Literature review, national survey of practice and randomised controlled trial

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A comparison of parents and pediatric anesthesiologists’ preferences for attributes of child daycase surgery: a discrete choice experiment

“…After the operation the child needs pain relief four times (4) 8 After the operation the child needs pain relief eight times (8) using different measurement scales is to transform the beta coefficients by calculating the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) of attributes with respect to a common unit (15). An MRS is a measure of how much a person is willing to trade-off a unit change in one attribute against changes in the other attributes.…”

“…Few studies have considered service providers’ preferences for health service attributes. Anesthetic practice for pediatric daycase procedures varies between anesthesiologists and may reflect their individual preferences (8). No single anesthetic agent, or technique, is appropriate for all children and all surgical procedures and there is no consensus on appropriate choice of technique (9).…”

Clinical and economic choices in anaesthesia for day surgery: A prospective randomised controlled trial

“…No patient received prophylactic anti-emetics. More detailed descriptions of methods are provided in the Appendix and elsewhere [12,13].…”

“…The clinical methods and results of the paediatric RCT are presented in more detail in a related publication [12]. The economic evaluation is part of a research study that also encompasses a literature review and national survey [13].…”

Clinical and economic choices in anaesthesia for day surgery

“…This requires studying sufficient numbers of patients using a design reflecting real‐life anaesthesia practice. The large sample size and meticulous randomisation, further stratified by sex and by surgical specialty, resulted in recognised confounding factors being evenly distributed between groups [1].…”