Financial burden of trauma care on a university hospital in a developing country

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dc.contributor.buuauthorKaya, Ekrem
dc.contributor.buuauthorÖzgüç, Halil
dc.contributor.buuauthorTokyay, Rıfat
dc.contributor.buuauthorYunuk, Özkan
dc.contributor.departmentUludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı.tr_TR
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-09T10:56:03Z
dc.date.available2021-09-09T10:56:03Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractBackground: Trauma care is expensive and more so for the hospitals not subsidized by the government, as is the case in developing countries. In this study, the burden of trauma care on a typical Level I trauma center in Turkey was investigated, Methods: Medical, demographic, and financial records of trauma patients who were hospitalized in the calendar year of 1996 were analyzed, Results: A total of 347 patients had complete data available for analysis. The mean Injury Severity Score was 13.3 +/- 0.5, Total hospital charges and charges per patient were $547,391 and $1,577, respectively. There was a positive correlation between the Injury Severity Score and the hospital charges. Although 54.2% of the patients were self-payer and the rest (45.8%) had some form of a health insurance, 5.5% ($30,496) of total hospital charges of these 347 trauma patients could not be collected by the hospital. Conclusion: Trauma care is expensive and reimbursement is not always possible, but the hospital's nonreimbursed money was within tolerable Limits, and the overall financial balance of the hospital from the trauma care was on the positive side, even in the absence of government subsidy.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKaya, E. vd. (1999). "Financial burden of trauma care on a university hospital in a developing country". Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection and Critical Care, 47(3), 572-575.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage575tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn1079-6061
dc.identifier.issue3tr_TR
dc.identifier.pubmed10498318tr_TR
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0032864890tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage572tr_TR
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-199909000-00027
dc.identifier.urihttps://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Fulltext/1999/09000/Financial_Burden_of_Trauma_Care_on_a_University.27.aspx
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11452/21807
dc.identifier.volume47tr_TR
dc.identifier.wos000082607700030tr_TR
dc.indexed.pubmedPubmeden_US
dc.indexed.scopusScopusen_US
dc.indexed.wosSCIEen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherLippincott Williams & Wilkinsen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Trauma-Injury Infection and Critical Careen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergitr_TR
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectGeneral & internal medicineen_US
dc.subjectSurgeryen_US
dc.subjectReimbursementen_US
dc.subjectImpacten_US
dc.subjectCentersen_US
dc.subjectInjuriesen_US
dc.subjectSystemsen_US
dc.subjectPaymenten_US
dc.subject.scopusInjury Severity Score; Trauma Centers; Trauma and Injuryen_US
dc.subject.wosCritical care medicineen_US
dc.subject.wosSurgeryen_US
dc.titleFinancial burden of trauma care on a university hospital in a developing countryen_US
dc.typeArticle

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