The Role of Sociodemographics in the Occurrence of Orthopaedic Trauma

Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death in Americans ages 1 –44 in the United States and accounts for nearly 10% of global mortality [1,2]. Trauma care requires extensive health care resource utilization including hospital visits, surgeries, rehabilitation and psychological care. In addition, the health system-level financial losses associated with traumat ic injury exceed those of cancer and heart disease combined with annual costs exceeding $670 billion [2,3]. Meanwhile, the patient-level productivity losses due to acute and sometimes life-long physical, psychological, and emotional pain or disability result in financial hardship for individuals and their families.
Source: Injury - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research