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. 2022 Jan 30;19(3):1609.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031609.

Direct Healthcare Costs of Moderate and Severe Work-Related Injuries: Estimates from the National Trauma Center of Qatar

Rafael J Consunji  1 , Ahammed Mekkodathil  1 , Ayman El-Menyar  1 , Amber Mehmood  2 , Brijesh Sathian  3 , Adnan A Hyder  4 , Nazia Hirani  1 , Aisha Abeid  1 , Hassan Al-Thani  1 , Ruben Peralta  1   5
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Direct Healthcare Costs of Moderate and Severe Work-Related Injuries: Estimates from the National Trauma Center of Qatar

Rafael J Consunji et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Work-related injuries (WRIs) are recognized as a leading cause of admission to the national trauma center of Qatar. A retrospective analysis of trauma registry data and electronic medical records was conducted on a cohort of all WRI patients who were admitted to the Hamad Trauma Center (HTC), in Doha, Qatar, between 2011 and 2017. A total of 3757 WRI patients were treated at the HTC over the 7-year study period. The overall cost for treatment was 124,671,431 USD (18 million USD per year), with a median cost of 19,071 USD. There was a strong positive correlation between the overall cost and hospital-stay cost (r2 = 0.949, p = 0.00001) and between the overall cost and procedure cost (r2 = 0.852, p = 0.00001). Motor vehicle crash (MVC) victims who wore seatbelts had significantly lower injury severity, hospital stay and median total costs. A comparison of patients by quartiles of the costs incurred showed that the proportions of MVC victims, pedestrian injuries and mortality were significantly higher in the fourth quartile when compared to other quartiles (p < 0.05). These findings suggest that investments in the primary prevention of work-related injuries from falls and MVCs, through proven interventions, should be priorities for occupational safety and health in Qatar.

Keywords: healthcare cost; trauma; work-related injuries.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.

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Patient data flowchart, Trauma Registry, Hamad Trauma Center, Doha, Qatar (2011–2017).
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