The economics of surgery: using routine and registry data to improve policy, with particular reference to congenital heart disease (the Fontan procedure) and prosthetic surgery (hip and knee replacements)

我的研究将使用经济学来帮助改善手术结果。外科手术中的临床和政策建议通常来自相对较低的证据基础。我将利用以前接受髋关节和膝盖手术(圣文森特医院墨尔本)和丰坦心脏手术(墨尔本皇家儿童医院)的详细数据登记来开发手术结果的高级经济模型。我的目标是使用这些模型来改进外科手术中的现实世界卫生政策。

My research will use economics to help improve surgery outcomes. Clinical and policy recommendations in surgery often come from a relatively low evidence base. I will make use of detailed data registries of previous recipients of hip and knee surgery (St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne) and Fontan heart surgery (Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne) to develop advanced economic models of surgery outcomes. My aim is to use these models to improve real-world health policies in surgery.