TY - JOUR
T1 - Spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury
T2 - A cost-of-illness study
AU - García-Altés, Anna
AU - Pérez, Katherine
AU - Novoa, Ana
AU - Suelves, Josep M.
AU - Bernabeu, Montserrat
AU - Vidal, Joan
AU - Arrufat, Vita
AU - Santamariña-Rubio, Elena
AU - Ferrando, Josep
AU - Cogollos, Mar
AU - Cantera, Carlos Martn
AU - Luque, Juan Carlos González
N1 - Funding Information:
Saloni Clerk helped with fieldwork. Funding was provided by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Helpful comments were provided by Kenneth J. Wagner, N.J. Hutchinson and an anonymous reviewer. This is contribution number 383 for Center for Water and the Environment at the Natural Resources Research Institute.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Background: Among traumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries (SCI) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are of major importance because of their epidemiological and economic impact on society. The overall objective of this study was to estimate the economic cost associated with people with SCI and TBI in Spain in 2007. Methods: A cost-of-illness analysis was performed, considering the perspective of society, using a 1-year time horizon. Medical costs, adaptation costs, material costs, administrative costs, and costs of police, firefighters and roadside assistance, productivity losses due to institutionalization and sick leave, as well as an estimate of productivity losses of carers, and productivity losses due to death were included. Results: The economic cost associated with people with SCI is between EUR 92,087,080.97 and 212,496,196.41 (USD 131 million and 302 million) according to the injury mechanism, and between EUR 1,079,223,688.66 and 3,833,752,692.78 (USD 1,536 million and 5,458 million) for people with TBI. Conclusions: There is an urgent need to develop effective interventions known to prevent SCI and TBI, and to evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency.
AB - Background: Among traumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries (SCI) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are of major importance because of their epidemiological and economic impact on society. The overall objective of this study was to estimate the economic cost associated with people with SCI and TBI in Spain in 2007. Methods: A cost-of-illness analysis was performed, considering the perspective of society, using a 1-year time horizon. Medical costs, adaptation costs, material costs, administrative costs, and costs of police, firefighters and roadside assistance, productivity losses due to institutionalization and sick leave, as well as an estimate of productivity losses of carers, and productivity losses due to death were included. Results: The economic cost associated with people with SCI is between EUR 92,087,080.97 and 212,496,196.41 (USD 131 million and 302 million) according to the injury mechanism, and between EUR 1,079,223,688.66 and 3,833,752,692.78 (USD 1,536 million and 5,458 million) for people with TBI. Conclusions: There is an urgent need to develop effective interventions known to prevent SCI and TBI, and to evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency.
KW - Brain injuries
KW - Cost of illness
KW - Traffic accidents
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U2 - 10.1159/000338297
DO - 10.1159/000338297
M3 - Article
C2 - 22846706
AN - SCOPUS:84864264951
SN - 0251-5350
VL - 39
SP - 103
EP - 108
JO - Neuroepidemiology
JF - Neuroepidemiology
IS - 2
ER -