Understanding cost-utility analysis studies in the trauma and orthopaedic surgery literature.

For example, discounting may be significant in the case of autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) to treat isolated full-thickness articular cartilage defects of the knee (upfront costs and delayed health benefits) or negligible in intra-articular steroid injections (where costs and benefits occur upfront simultaneously).

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