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Analysis of Hospital Costs in Road Traffic Injuries

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors affecting the hospital costs in the road traffic injuries. METHODS: This applied study examined the information of patients presenting to Yazd Trauma Center in 2018. The data were extracted from Comprehensive Traffic Injuries System affiliated to the center, whi...

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Autores principales: Emamgholipour, Sara, Raadabadi, Mehdi, Dehghani, Mohammadhosein, Fallah-Aliabadi, Saeed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33937424
http://dx.doi.org/10.30476/BEAT.2021.86855
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author Emamgholipour, Sara
Raadabadi, Mehdi
Dehghani, Mohammadhosein
Fallah-Aliabadi, Saeed
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description OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors affecting the hospital costs in the road traffic injuries. METHODS: This applied study examined the information of patients presenting to Yazd Trauma Center in 2018. The data were extracted from Comprehensive Traffic Injuries System affiliated to the center, which were described with frequency, percentage, mean, and SD, and then analyzed using independent t-test and one-way ANOVA. RESULTS: Most injuries (%66.4) are caused by motorcycle and pertained to head region (%61.8). Some significant correlations were found among gender, type of injury, patient’s final status, site of road accident, patient’s nationality, type of vehicle used at the time of accident, length of stay (hospital stay), patient’s age, and hospital costs (p<0.05). Moreover, the costs were higher in men, and in those with head and neck injuries, dead casualties, suburban high-way accidents, motor cyclists, hospital stay longer than three days, and older patients. CONCLUSION: Given the significant correlations between demographic and social variables under study, the results may be used in planning and designing strategies for controlling road traffic injuries and reducing the related hospitalization costs.
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spelling pubmed-80628892021-04-30 Analysis of Hospital Costs in Road Traffic Injuries Emamgholipour, Sara Raadabadi, Mehdi Dehghani, Mohammadhosein Fallah-Aliabadi, Saeed Bull Emerg Trauma Original Article OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors affecting the hospital costs in the road traffic injuries. METHODS: This applied study examined the information of patients presenting to Yazd Trauma Center in 2018. The data were extracted from Comprehensive Traffic Injuries System affiliated to the center, which were described with frequency, percentage, mean, and SD, and then analyzed using independent t-test and one-way ANOVA. RESULTS: Most injuries (%66.4) are caused by motorcycle and pertained to head region (%61.8). Some significant correlations were found among gender, type of injury, patient’s final status, site of road accident, patient’s nationality, type of vehicle used at the time of accident, length of stay (hospital stay), patient’s age, and hospital costs (p<0.05). Moreover, the costs were higher in men, and in those with head and neck injuries, dead casualties, suburban high-way accidents, motor cyclists, hospital stay longer than three days, and older patients. CONCLUSION: Given the significant correlations between demographic and social variables under study, the results may be used in planning and designing strategies for controlling road traffic injuries and reducing the related hospitalization costs. Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8062889/ /pubmed/33937424 http://dx.doi.org/10.30476/BEAT.2021.86855 Text en Journal compilation © 2021 Trauma Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33937424
http://dx.doi.org/10.30476/BEAT.2021.86855
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