{"id":291365,"date":"2023-05-19T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicnewstime.com\/health-news\/investing-in-safe-surgery-could-cut-costs-and-save-lives-in-lmics\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:39:56","slug":"investing-in-safe-surgery-could-cut-costs-and-save-lives-in-lmics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/investing-in-safe-surgery-could-cut-costs-and-save-lives-in-lmics\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in safe surgery could cut costs and save lives in LMICs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Investing in developing systems of safe surgery to reduce Surgical Site Infection (SSI) will help to reduce the financial burden on health services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), a new study reveals.n                                                <\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing inpatient resource use in India, Ghana, Nigeria and Mexico, researchers discovered that additional investigations and hospital length of stay for a patient with an SSI compared to patient without an SSI were generally higher in clean-contaminated surgical cases compared to contaminated-dirty surgical cases.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>They found that SSI occurred in 7% of clean-contaminated cases, where wounds have no signs of infection at the time of surgery, while 27% of contaminated-dirty cases?where the wound encounters bodily fluids?exhibited SSI.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>Overall, SSI was associated with an increase in postoperative healthcare costs by 75.3% (?412) after clean-contaminated surgery and 66.6% (?331) after contaminated-dirty surgery.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>Publishing their findings in <i>Journal of Hospital Infection<\/i>, the international group of researchers, led by the University of Birmingham, reveal that the highest and lowest cost increases were in India for clean-contaminated cases (?517) and contaminated-dirty cases (?223). Overall, inpatient costs accounted for 96.4% of total healthcare costs after clean-contaminated surgery and 92.5% after contaminated-dirty surgery.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>Study lead Mr. Mark Monahan, from the University of Birmingham&#8217;s Institute of Applied Health Research, commented, &#8220;Surgical site infection is the world&#8217;s most common postoperative complication. This is the first multi-continental surgical cost study of its kind and reveals substantial additional postoperative costs associated with SSI across a range of settings.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investing in financial burden<\/a> to patients and low-resource health systems?helping to improve the overall quality of healthcare and ultimately saving lives.&#8221;n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that patients with an SSI had higher costs<\/a> in both postoperative inpatient costs and post-discharge costs compared to patients without an SSI. They discovered that SSI was a statistically significant variable in determining postoperative healthcare costs.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>Postoperative inpatient costs made up most of the total healthcare costs in both clean-contaminated and contaminated-dirty cases. An exploratory investigation in Ghana showed that the costs of unresolved SSI persist beyond 30 days.n<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>The experts note that this is an important finding because 37.5% of prospective patients with an SSI were unresolved at 30 days post-surgery, potentially underestimating the true postoperative costs.<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">n<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>n                                                    M. Monahan et al, The costs of surgical site infection after abdominal surgery in middle-income countries: Key resource use In Wound Infection (KIWI) study, <i>Journal of Hospital Infection<\/i> (2023).  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