作者
Ericka P von Kaeppler, Erik J Kramer, Claire A Donnelley, Hao-Hua Wu, Elliot Marseille, Edmund Eliezer, Heather J Roberts, David Shearer, Saam Morshed
发表日期
2021/6/30
期刊
Malawi medical journal
卷号
33
期号
2
页码范围
135-139
简介
Background
Femur fracture patients require significant in-hospital care. The burden incurred by caregivers of such patients amplifies the direct costs of these injuries and remains unquantified.
Aim
Here we aim to establish the in-hospital economic burden faced by informal caregivers of femur fracture patients.
Methods
70 unique caregivers for 46 femoral shaft fracture patients were interviewed. Incurred economic burden was determined by the Human Capital Approach, using standardized income data to quantify productivity loss (in $ USD). Linear regression assessed the relationship between caregiver burden and patient time-in-hospital.
Results
The average economic burden incurred was $149, 9% of a caregiver’s annual income and positively correlated with patient time in hospital (p< 0.01).
Conclusion
Caregivers of patients treated operatively for femur fractures lost a large portion of their annual income, and this loss increased with patient time in hospital. These indirect costs of femur fracture treatment constitute an important component of the total injury burden.
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