Societal cost of traumatic brain injury: A comparison of cost-of-injuries related to biking with and without helmet use
| العنوان: | Societal cost of traumatic brain injury: A comparison of cost-of-injuries related to biking with and without helmet use |
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| المؤلفون: | Elaine de Guise, Jehane Dagher, Camille K. Costa, Julie Lamoureux, Mitra Feyz |
| المصدر: | Brain Injury. 29:843-847 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Canada, medicine.medical_specialty, Traumatic brain injury, education, Neuroscience (miscellaneous), Poison control, Helmet use, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, Cost of Illness, Trauma Centers, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Injury prevention, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Craniocerebral Trauma, Humans, Medicine, Disabled Persons, Hospital Costs, General hospital, Retrospective Studies, Insurance, Health, business.industry, Accidents, Traffic, Quebec, Human factors and ergonomics, Length of Stay, medicine.disease, Bicycling, Hospitalization, Motorcycles, Brain Injuries, Physical therapy, Female, Head Protective Devices, Neurology (clinical), business, human activities |
| الوصف: | The goal of this study is to determine if a difference in societal costs exists from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in patients who wear helmets compared to non-wearers.This is a retrospective cost-of-injury study of 128 patients admitted to the Montreal General Hospital (MGH) following a TBI that occurred while cycling between 2007-2011. Information was collected from Quebec Trauma Registry. The independent variables collected were socio-demographic, helmet status, clinical and neurological patient information. The dependent variables evaluated societal costs.The median costs of hospitalization were significantly higher (p = 0.037) in the no helmet group ($7246.67 vs. $4328.17). No differences in costs were found for inpatient rehabilitation (p = 0.525), outpatient rehabilitation (p = 0.192), loss of productivity (p = 0.108) or death (p = 1.000). Overall, the differences in total societal costs between the helmet and no helmet group were not significantly different (p = 0.065). However, the median total costs for patients with isolated TBI in the non-helmet group ($22, 232.82) was significantly higher (p = 0.045) compared to the helmet group ($13, 920.15).Cyclists sustaining TBIs who did not wear helmets in this study were found to cost society nearly double that of helmeted cyclists. |
| تدمد: | 1362-301X 0269-9052 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a5f8e5016af7ec22de7e39fe312e719a https://doi.org/10.3109/02699052.2015.1004758 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a5f8e5016af7ec22de7e39fe312e719a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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