Cost-utility analysis of endoscopic lumbar discectomy following a uniform clinical pathway in the Korean national health insurance system

• Chi Heon Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chi Heon Kim, Yunhee Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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• Yunhee Choi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chi Heon Kim, Yunhee Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medical Statistics, Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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• Chun Kee Chung ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chungc@snu.ac.kr

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3485-2327

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• Seung Heon Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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• Chang-Hyun Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

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• Sung Bae Park,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Neurosurgery, Borame Medical Center, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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• Keewon Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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• Sun Gun Chung

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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