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Cost analysis and related factors in patients with traumatic hand injury
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to measure the direct and indirect costs and factors influencing these costs in patients presenting following traumatic hand injury. We assessed patients aged 18-65 years who were in work. Hand injury severity and functional status were assessed. Direct costs, including medical care expenses, and indirect costs, including lost productivity, were calculated. Seventy-nine patients of a mean age of 32 years were included. The mean direct cost for each patient was $1772 (47% of total cost), and the indirect cost was $1891 (53% of total cost). Injury severity, time to return to work, and hospitalization time were the main parameters of increased total cost in a linear regression analysis. © The Author(s) 2012.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Turkey
Adolescent
medical leave
Turkey (republic)
Indirect costs
Young Adult
Injury Severity Score
Return to Work
cost analysis
cost benefit analysis
middle aged
Finger Injuries
Medicine
Humans
In patient
human
hand injury
health care economics and organizations
Aged
Related factors
Hand injury
business.industry
Female
Finger Injuries/*economics/rehabilitation/surgery
Health Care Costs
Hospitalization/economics
Linear Models
Middle Aged
Return to Work/economics
Sick Leave/economics
Hand injuries
statistical model
article
health care cost
accident
economics
medicine.disease
Surgery
Hospitalization
female
injury scale
Emergency medicine
Cost analysis
Sick Leave
business
finger injury
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ed119115b65b9b78bf3e7b6a99f14202