Economic evaluation
infections
INFECTIONS
The base-case economic evaluation showed that the mean NHS cost in the first 4–12 months after nail bed repair surgery was £75.07 (95 per cent c.i. 30.05 to 124.11) higher in the replace group than the discard group (After multiple imputation of missing data, the mean incidence of infections by 7–10 days was 0.0137 (95 per cent c.i. −0.0091 to 0.0352) per patient higher in the replace group than in the discard group (