Plate fixation vs. intramedullary nailing: Which is more cost-effective for tibial shaft fractures?
Seyed Houssien Saeed-Banadaky, Mehdi Raadabadi, Amir Mohammad Sotoudehnia, Rajabali Daroudi, Seyed Masoud Mousavi, Mohammad Ranjbar · 2026
Read Plate fixation vs. intramedullary nailing: Which is more cost-effective for tibial shaft fractures? by Seyed Houssien Saeed-Banadaky, Mehdi Raadabadi, Amir Mohammad Sotoudehnia, Rajabali Daroudi, Seyed Masoud Mousavi, Mohammad Ranjbar (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13411400.txt.
Description
Seyed Houssien Saeed-Banadaky and colleagues weighed cost against benefit for two ways to fix broken shin bones in Iran in 2026. Plates and rods through the bone marrow are both standard. Tight health budgets demand proof of which gives more health per dollar, so the team followed 276 patients for three months after surgery.
Rod fixation cost less per patient, about 603 dollars against about 670 dollars for plates, while also yielding slightly more quality-adjusted life time over 90 days. The paper leans toward rods as the better value in this setting, with hospital bills driving most of the cost gap.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Seyed Houssien Saeed-Banadaky, Mehdi Raadabadi, Amir Mohammad Sotoudehnia, Rajabali Daroudi, Seyed Masoud Mousavi, Mohammad Ranjbar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |