A successful pathway alignment would prove useful for determining whether test results on one species could be transferred to another without incurring complications.
Table 3 shows all groups, which are considered as best representatives of the costs incurred by complications.
In addition to the restrictions already mentioned, costs incurred by complications, side effects, or sequelae of the treatment of HNCs, such as side effects relating to dysphagia or mucositis, usually managed in outpatient care, were not included.
Among the different types of complications investigated, foot complications incurred the highest costs; patients with foot complications spent four times more than patients with no complications.
Gervais et al. [ 1] incurred 4 major complications in the treatment of 100 tumors.
We also reviewed any cardiac complications incurred during their stay, alongside 30-day mortality.
We also present what we believe to be a complete register of all complications incurred during or after the operations.
The increased risk of complications incurred in the weeks following implants of PM, as well as the medical and economic importance of shortening the hospital stay after surgical procedures, is well known.
It was thought that, in these cases, there could be a greater risk of complications: "given the demographic…many [medical tourists]…have some chronic disease management that they're dealing with…and it's like oh my God [the risks they could face]." Participants were concerned about the demands the BC healthcare system faced as a result of treating complications incurred through medical tourism.
Second, our study is a partial cost-of-illness analysis, since it did not include (a) morbidity costs due to absenteeism from work and cost of time lost by family members accompanying pregnant women for delivery; and (b) direct health care costs that might be incurred addressing maternal complications before death occurs [ 28].
