NCT01872364

Dominican Republic Mission Cost Analysis

A Material Cost-Minimization Analysis for Hernia Repairs and Minor Procedures During a Surgical Mission in the Dominican Republic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Hernia
• Hydrocele

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2013-06-07
• Last updated: 2013-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States