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. 2012 Jun 27;2:12. doi: 10.1186/2191-1991-2-12

Table 2.

Number of fractures, number and costs of bed days, visits, medical and non-medical services

  Hip
 Forearm
 Humerus
 Clinical vertebral
 Rib
 Total          
m f m f m f f m f m
Fractures
                      
Cases primarily treated in an inpatient setting
 3,415
 11,456
 878
 3,111
 770
 2,711
 1,193
 2,355
 1,590
 1,365
 28,844
Cases primarily treated in an outpatient setting
 0
 0
 4,390
 15,555
 1,348
 4,744
 11,930
 23,550
 15,900
 13,650
 91,067
Cases treated
 3,415
 11,456
 5,268
 18,666
 2,118
 7,455
 13,123
 25,905
 17,490
 15,015
 119,911
Bed days
                      
Mean bed days per case
 16.6
 14.8
 3.7
 4.9
 5.21
 71
 5.21
 71
 5.21
 71
 7,7
Total bed days
 56,689
 169,549
 3,249
 15,244
 4,004
 18,977
 6,202
 16,482
 8,268
 9,555
 308,219
Costs total (€)2
 33,559,888
 100,373,008
 1,923,408
 9,024,448
 2,370,368
 11,234,384
 3,671,584
 9,757,344
 4,894,659
 5,656,560
 182,465,648
Visits
                      
Mean number of visits to private practice offices
 1.67
 2.57
 0.33
 0.85
 0.53
 1.82
 2.20
 2.87
 2.20
 2.87
 1.79
Total number of visits to private practice offices
 5,703
 29,442
 1,738
 15,866
 1,123
 13,568
 28,871
 74,347
 38,478
 43,093
 252,229
Costs of visits to private practice offices (€)3
 416,889.3
 2,152,210.2
 127,047.8
 1,159,804.6
 82,091.3
 991,820.8
 2,110,470.1
 5,434,765.7
 2,812,741.8
 3,150,098.3
 18,437,939.9
Mean number of visits to hospital outpatient clinics
 1.59
 1.27
 5.83
 5.15
 1.47
 1.71
 2.40
 1.71
 2.40
 1.71
 2,52
Total number of visits to hospital outpatient clinics
 5,430
 14,549
 30,712
 96,130
 3,113
 12,748
 31,495
 44,298
 41,976
 25,676
 306,127
Costs of visits to hospital outpatient clinics (€)4
 290,776.5
 779,098.95
 1,644,627.6
 5,147,761.5
 166,701.15
 682,655.4
 1,686,557.25
 2,372,157.9
 2,247,814.8
 1,374,949.8
 16,393,100.85
Other medical and non-medical services
                      
Physical therapy (mean number of sessions per case)
 15.88
 14.03
 4.17
 13.09
 25.13
 19.98
 8.45
 8.22
 8.45
 8.22
 12.56
Physical therapy (total number of sessions)
 54,230
 160,728
 21,968
 244,338
 53,225
 148,951
 110,889
 212,939
 147,791
 123,423
 1,278,482
Costs of physical therapy (€)5
 1,626,900
 4,821,840
 659,040
 7,330,140
 1,596,750
 4,468,530
 3,326,670
 6,388,170
 4,433,730
 3,702,690
 38,354,460
X-rays b (mean number per case)
 2.18
 2.,17
 3.5
 4.2
 1.33
 2.08
 2.5
 1.96
 2.5
 1.96
 2.43
X-rays (total number)
 7,445
 24,860
 18,438
 78,397
 2,817
 15,506
 32,808
 50,774
 43,725
 29,429
 304,199
Costs of X-rays (€)6
 598,578
 1,998,744
 1,482,415
 6,303,118
 226,486.8
 1,246,682.4
 2,637,763
 4,082,229
 3,515,490
 2,366,091
 24,457,599
BMD Measurement7
 1,059
 3,551
 1,633
 5,787
 657
 2,311
 4,068
 8,030
 5,422
 4,655
 37,173
Cost of BMD measurement (€)8
 37,065
 124,285
 57,155
 202,545
 22,995
 80,885
 142,380
 281,050
 189,770
 162,925
 1,301,055
Transportation (mean number of units per case)
 0.73
 0.78
 ---
 0.89
 ---
 0.1
 0.55
 0.37
 0.55
 0.37
 0.43
Transportation (total number of units)
 2,493
 8,936
 ---
 16,613
 ---
 746
 7,218
 9,585
 9,620
 5,556
 60,767
Cost of transportation (€)9 142,101 509,352 --- 946,941 --- 42,522 411,426 546,345 548,340 316,692 3,463,719

1 mean values for ICD-10 codes S10-S51, S53-S71, S73-S81.

2 Cost per bed day = € 592.

3 Cost per visit to private practice office (specialist) = € 73.10.

4 Cost per visit to hospital outpatient clinics (speacialist) = € 53.55.

5 Cost per session of physical therapy = € 30.

6 Cost per unit (i.e. X-ray) = € 80.40.

7 In average, 31% of Austrian patients received BMD measurment within first year after fracture (ICUROS-Austria).

8 Cost per BMD measurement (spine and hip).

9 Average cost per unit (i.e. per ride, as invoiced by a typical Ambulance service) = € 57.00.