Letter to the Editor: The Case for Publicly Funded Headache Surgery in Germany

Headache surgery has become a considerable therapeutic option in headache treatment and is of rising interest in the German medical sector. This viewpoint outlines the need for reimbursement of headache surgery in the German healthcare system and demonstrates its cost-effectiveness. Using state-of-t...

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Autores principales: Knoedler, Leonard, Chartier, Christian, ElHawary, Hassan, Kehrer, Andreas, Muehlberger, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8526409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpra.2021.09.001
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author Knoedler, Leonard
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ElHawary, Hassan
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description Headache surgery has become a considerable therapeutic option in headache treatment and is of rising interest in the German medical sector. This viewpoint outlines the need for reimbursement of headache surgery in the German healthcare system and demonstrates its cost-effectiveness. Using state-of-the-art patient selection algorithms, the authors found headache surgery to be cost-effective within 7.2 to 6.3 years. Of note, the approach presented is not limited to the German healthcare system.
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spelling pubmed-85264092021-10-25 Letter to the Editor: The Case for Publicly Funded Headache Surgery in Germany Knoedler, Leonard Chartier, Christian ElHawary, Hassan Kehrer, Andreas Muehlberger, Thomas JPRAS Open Correspondence Headache surgery has become a considerable therapeutic option in headache treatment and is of rising interest in the German medical sector. This viewpoint outlines the need for reimbursement of headache surgery in the German healthcare system and demonstrates its cost-effectiveness. Using state-of-the-art patient selection algorithms, the authors found headache surgery to be cost-effective within 7.2 to 6.3 years. Of note, the approach presented is not limited to the German healthcare system. Elsevier 2021-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8526409/ /pubmed/34703872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpra.2021.09.001 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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