Are "Free Flaps" "Free" Flaps? mydrg.de

Are "Free Flaps" "Free" Flaps? (Thieme Connect).

Background Even standard microvascular tissue transfers are time consuming, require great skill and intensity, and can be stressful. Not surprisingly, work-related relative value units are considered by many microsurgeons to be suboptimal. Some might even say that free flaps indeed really are free flaps.
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Conclusion A true benefit cost-analysis even if microsurgery specific expenses
could be estimated would be inaccurate, so that mean net income for each free
flap could not be determined. Albeit a minimal gross payment was obtained for
some free flap procedures, in no instance was there zero reimbursement.
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Quelle: Thieme Connect, 17.08.2021