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## Study objectives: To estimate the mean cost of initial medical treatment for a variety of injury types and injury causes and project the national cost of initial medical care for injuries to children. ## Design: We combined injury incidence data from the massachusetts statewide childhood injury prevention project (scipp) with a claims data set (1987 charges) from the health data institute, lexington, massachusetts. ## Setting and study population: Scipp incidence data were obtained from hospital emergency department and inpatient facilities for a population of 87,000 massachusetts children 0 to 19 years old between 1979 and 1982. health data institute charge data for children were derived from insurance claims for 3% of all privately insured patients throughout the united states. ## Results: The estimated mean cost of initial hospitalization for injury was $5,094, while ed care was $171. projected annual cost for initial medical care of injury to children for the nation was $5.1 billion, which was about equally divided between cases seen in eds and those requiring inpatient care. although there was little difference in mean cost between the genders, mean cost increased with age.

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Author

Marvin Malek; Bei-hung Chang; Susan S Gallagher; Bernard Guyer

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1097-6760)

Published

1991

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)