Pilot study on the comprehensive economic costs of major trauma: Consequential costs are well in excess of medical costs

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 723-731

  Haeusler, Jean Marc C ^a,c   Tobler, Benno ^b   Arnet, Beat ^b   Huesler, Juerg ^a   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SUVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

(MeSH) Accidents; Cost of illness; Direct service costs; Emergency medicine; Health; Health care sector; Hospital costs; Injury Severity Score; Insurance; Multiple trauma; Outcome assessment (health care); Reimbursement; Retrospective studies; Switzerland; Traffic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INSURANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT;

COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SWITZERLAND; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMATOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33748745942     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000210453.70742.7f     Document Type: Article

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