TY - JOUR
T1 - Direct Healthcare Costs of Moderate and Severe Work-Related Injuries
T2 - Estimates from the National Trauma Center of Qatar
AU - Consunji, Rafael J.
AU - Mekkodathil, Ahammed
AU - El-Menyar, Ayman
AU - Mehmood, Amber
AU - Sathian, Brijesh
AU - Hyder, Adnan A.
AU - Hirani, Nazia
AU - Abeid, Aisha
AU - Al-Thani, Hassan
AU - Peralta, Ruben
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the Qatar Foundation National Priorities Research Program [QF-NPRP] (NPRP 7-1120-3-288)) as the grant “Unified Registry for Workplace Injury Prevention in Qatar (WURQ)”.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to acknowledge administrative and technical support from the Hamad Trauma Center and Medical Research Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/2/1
Y1 - 2022/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Healthcare cost
KW - Trauma
KW - Work-related injuries
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19031609
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19031609
M3 - Article
C2 - 35162635
AN - SCOPUS:85123521051
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 19
JO - International journal of environmental research and public health
JF - International journal of environmental research and public health
IS - 3
M1 - 1609
ER -