Additional Medical Costs Due to Hospital-Acquired Falls

Objectives To explore the additional medical costs (AMCs) due to hospital-acquired falls (falls), as well as their impact on clinical services within hospitals under the nationally uniform universal health insurance system in Japan. Methods With the use of administrative profiling data based on accounting systems linked with the Japanese social insurance medical fee schedule, we analyzed data from 2 teaching hospitals: Shimane University Hospital (SUH) and St. Mary's Hospital (SMH). We extracted 588 fall cases from 4669 incident reports in SUH and 1168 fall cases from 7717 incident reports in SMH that potentially incurred AMCs. Results Additional medical costs were 364 ± 2129 USD for minor injuries and 4336 ± 3645 USD for major injuries at SUH (P
Source: Journal of Patient Safety - Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research