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Out Sourcing of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery: Cost Considerations

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165 surgeries for head and neck cancer have been performed by a team of the Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology IIHNO in 1 year. Integration of private players was necessitated because of need to share available facilities without losing objective of reducing the cost. These surgeries were performed at a private hospital using their resources for the operation theatre and post-operative intensive care services, since the IIHNO does not as yet have an operation theatre facility. The pre-op facilities and post-operative care was done at IIHNO a charitable cancer center under the Indore Cancer Foundation a public charitable trust. Cost analysis of these procedures has been done and the system of integration of the two have been analysed.

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Shailesh Urdhwareshe and Ujjawal Bagmar for graphs, and for patient details Dr Vikas Gupta and Priyanka Solanki.

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  1. Indian Institute of Head and Neck Oncology, Indore Cancer Foundation, 779-D, Rajtilak, Manishpuri, Saket Extension, Indore, 452018, India

    Digpal Dharkar, Laxmi Narayan Namdev, Suresh Verma, Sonia Moses & Suresh Sehgal

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Dharkar, D., Namdev, L.N., Verma, S. et al. Out Sourcing of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery: Cost Considerations. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 73, 408–412 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-01839-4

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