Counting the costs of major trauma in a provincial trauma centre.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study in New Zealand describing actual costs in patients suffering from major trauma and variation to case-weight costs. Intensive care admission and operative intervention have been identified as the two main drivers of cost. Further studies are needed in New Zealand, particularly in major trauma centres, to better understand the true cost of major trauma within the country. PMID: 30048433 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research