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Surgical packages for laparoscopic surgery

‘Packages’ are in fashion today for most surgical procedures in various corporate hospitals and this has included laparoscopic procedures too. A package system enables the hospitals to get cost settlements done more easily. Also, it is more convenient for the patients who are aware upfront of the ch...

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Autor principal: Bhattacharya, K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206650
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.16531
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description ‘Packages’ are in fashion today for most surgical procedures in various corporate hospitals and this has included laparoscopic procedures too. A package system enables the hospitals to get cost settlements done more easily. Also, it is more convenient for the patients who are aware upfront of the charges. The principal disadvantages seems to be for the surgeon, who may face displeasure of the patient, hospital or insurance agencies apart from forfeiting his personal charges if (a) he is a novice in laparoscopic surgery and takes extra time to complete a procedure, (b) unforeseen problems occur during surgery, or (c) new pathologies are discovered on exploration.
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spelling pubmed-30041092011-01-04 Surgical packages for laparoscopic surgery Bhattacharya, K. J Minim Access Surg Personal Viewpoint ‘Packages’ are in fashion today for most surgical procedures in various corporate hospitals and this has included laparoscopic procedures too. A package system enables the hospitals to get cost settlements done more easily. Also, it is more convenient for the patients who are aware upfront of the charges. The principal disadvantages seems to be for the surgeon, who may face displeasure of the patient, hospital or insurance agencies apart from forfeiting his personal charges if (a) he is a novice in laparoscopic surgery and takes extra time to complete a procedure, (b) unforeseen problems occur during surgery, or (c) new pathologies are discovered on exploration. Medknow Publications 2005-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3004109/ /pubmed/21206650 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.16531 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206650
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.16531
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