TY - JOUR AU - Linhares, Daniela AU - Fonseca, João A. AU - Ribeiro da Silva, Manuel AU - Conceição, Filipe AU - Sousa, António AU - Sousa-Pinto, Bernardo AU - Neves, Nuno PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/26 TI - Cost effectiveness of outpatient lumbar discectomy JO - Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation SP - 19 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Microdiscectomy is the most commonly performed spine surgery and the first transitioning for outpatient settings. However, this transition was never studied, in what comes to cost-utility assessment. Accordingly, this economic study aims to access the cost-effectiveness of outpatient lumbar microdiscectomy when compared with the inpatient procedure. SN - 1478-7547 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-021-00272-w DO - 10.1186/s12962-021-00272-w ID - Linhares2021 ER -