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The chapter describes the budget impact analysis (BIA) which is increasingly demanded by regulators as an essential part of a comprehensive economic evaluation of a new healthcare intervention. An example of BIA is presented considering the case of prostheses for incisional hernia repairs. The objective of this chapter is to give an overview of an ongoing project with the aim to estimate the current economic impact of the management of patients with incisional abdominal hernia through biosynthetic, synthetic or biologic meshes and to evaluate changes in the healthcare budget considering a future scenario with increased utilization rates of biosynthetic meshes in the next 5 years. The analysis is performed from the hospital perspective in Italy.
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The author would like to thank Dr. Dalila Patrizia Greco for the support in the questionnaire development and the clinical expert group who provided clinical advice and data for the development of the model: Luigi Boccia and Francesco Di Lecce (ASST Mantova), Feliciano Crovella and Andrea Bassi (C.T.O.—Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli, Napoli), Diego Cuccurullo (Ospedale Monaldi—Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli, Napoli), Vincenzo Maria Greco (Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi, Week Surgery, Sede di Budrio), Mauro Longoni and Giuseppe Faillace (Ospedale Cinisello Balsamo, Azienda ASST Nord Milano), Gennaro Nasti and Beatrice Di Venere (Presidio Ospedaliero Madonna delle Grazie, Matera), Micaela Piccoli and Vincenzo Trapani (Ospedale NOCSAE, Baggiovara, Modena) and Giorgio Soliani (Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Ferrara).
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Rognoni, C. (2019). Economic Modeling and Budget Impact Analysis in Abdominal Surgery: The Case of Mesh. In: Greco, D.P., Borgonovi, E. (eds) Abdominal Wall Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02426-0_14
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