Preliminary model assessing the cost-effectiveness of preoperative chlorhexidine mouthwash at reducing postoperative pneumonia among abdominal surgery patients in South Africa.
Kachapila M, Ademuyiwa AO, Biccard BM, Ghosh DN, Glasbey J, Monahan M, Moore R, Morton DG, Oppong R, Pearse R, Roberts TE; NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery; ASOS Investigators; STARSurg Collaborative.
Kachapila M, et al.
PLoS One. 2021 Aug 12;16(8):e0254698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254698. eCollection 2021.
PLoS One. 2021.
PMID: 34383776
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The results of the probabilistic sensitivity analysis were presented using cost-effectiveness planes and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves. ...In the presence of COVID-19, the increase in pneumonia rate due to COVID-19, made mouthwash more dominant as i …
The results of the probabilistic sensitivity analysis were presented using cost-effectiveness planes and cost-effective …