Costs of admissions of patients with orthopedic trauma to a hospital unit

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the costs of hospitalizations of patients with orthopedic trauma admitted to a referral hospital. Methods: Analytical quantitative study. The research had a sample of 200 medical records. The Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis and Spearman correlation tests were used to compare the mean values of Hospital Admission Authorizations (HAAs) and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics; 5% significance and 95% confidence. Results: The results obtained from the average value of HAAs according to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the sex with the highest cost was female (1,673.2) (p = 0.0016), with location in the hip (1,973.8) (p = 0.0002 ), in the anatomical part of the femur (2,595.3) (p = 0.0001). The prevalence of patients with possible sequelae (1,924.2) (p = 0.0185) and death (3,919.4) (p = 0.1015) was highlighted. Conclusion: In the study, it was identified that the highest costs of hospitalizations were female patients, with injuries to the femur and whose etiology was the fall; in addition, open fractures located in the hip region have high costs. Possible sequelae and deaths also have higher values in relation to the costs of HAAs.