Health care costs of injury in the older population: a prospective multicentre cohort study in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the ageing population, the number of older trauma patients has increased. The aim of this study was to assess non-surgical health care costs of older trauma patients and to identify which characteristics of older trauma patients were associated with high health care costs.

Methods

Trauma patients aged ≥65 years who were admitted to a hospital in Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands, were included in the Brabant Injury Outcome Surveillance (BIOS) study. Non-surgical in-hospital and up to 24- months post-hospital health care use were obtained from hospital registration data and collected with the iMTA Medical Consumption Questionnaire which patients completed 1 week and 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after injury. Log-linked gamma generalized linear models were used to id

SUBMITTER: van der Vlegel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576762 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature