Table 4.
Costs of nursing care, informal care, and special aids/equipment
| |
Hip |
Forearm |
Humerus |
Clinical vertebral |
Rib1 |
Costs € |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | ||
| Nursing care |
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| Mean number of nursing care hours per case |
108 |
58 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
25 |
17 |
59 |
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-------------------- |
-------------------- |
| Total number of nursing care hours |
368,820 |
664,448 |
0 |
261,324 |
0 |
186,375 |
223,091 |
1,528,395 |
-------------------- |
-------------------- |
3,232,453 |
| Total costs (€)2 |
11,064,600 |
19,933,440 |
0 |
7,839,720 |
0 |
5,591,250 |
6,692,730 |
45,851,850 |
-------------------- |
-------------------- |
96,973,590 |
| Informal (family care) |
|||||||||||
| Mean number of family care hours per case |
199 |
130 |
0 |
32 |
5 |
163 |
51 |
111 |
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| Total number of family care hours according to fracture type |
679,585 |
1,489,280 |
0 |
597,312 |
10,590 |
1,215,165 |
669,273 |
2,875,455 |
-------------------- |
-------------------- |
7,536,660 |
| Total costs (€)3 |
18,688,588 |
40,955,200 |
0 |
16,426,080 |
291,225 |
33,417,038 |
18,405,008 |
79,075,013 |
-------------------- |
-------------------- |
207,258,151 |
| Special aids and equipment (crutches, wheel-chair etc.) |
|||||||||||
| Mean expenses (€) per case |
49,00 |
111,67 |
0,00 |
5,00 |
0,00 |
79,59 |
31,75 |
69,88 |
-------------------- |
-------------------- |
34,7 |
| Total expenses (€) | 167,335 | 1,279,292 | 0 | 93,330 | 0 | 593,343 | 416,655 | 1,810,241 | -------------------- | -------------------- | 4,360,196 |
1 No data available from the ICUROS.
2 Estimated cost per hour of nursing care = € 30.
3 Estimated cost per hour of family care = € 27.50.