Estimation of long-term costs of postacute care in survivors of the methanol poisoning outbreak.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To fill the existing research gap related to long-term costs of postacute care in methanol poisoning survivors, healthcare cost for 6 years after the outbreak has been modelled and estimated.

Design

In a prospective longitudinal cohort study, data collected from 55 survivors of the Czech methanol mass poisoning outbreak in 2012 were collected in four rounds (5 months, then 2, 4 and 6 years after the discharge) in the General University Hospital in Prague according to the same predefined study protocol. The collected data were used to inform the cost model.

Setting and participants

All 83 patients discharged from a hospital poisoning treatment after the 2012 methanol outbreak were informed about the study and invited to participate. Fifty-five patients (66%)

SUBMITTER: Bartak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8137204 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature