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Ulf Gerdtham. Foto.

Ulf Gerdtham

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Ulf Gerdtham. Foto.

Estimating the costs of hip fracture and potential savings

Författare

  • Niklas Zethraeus
  • Ulf G. Gerdtham

Summary, in English

This paper examines the determinants of hip fracture costs and further evaluates potential savings in costs when the occurrence of hip fracture is prevented. The costs of hip fracture are comprised of direct costs from health care and the social welfare system. Data were collected for 1,080 postmenopausal women admitted from private residence for primary hip fracture surgery during the year of 1992 in the city of Stockholm, Sweden. It was found that the cost of hip fracture is significantly related to age, mortality the year after a fracture, type of fracture, costs 1 year before a fracture, and hospital admission. The savings in direct costs for an average woman surviving the year after a fracture amount to SEK 210,000.

Publiceringsår

1998-01-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

255-267

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volym

14

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Economics
  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0266-4623