Hoekstra, Harm; Smeets, Bart; Metsemakers, Willem-Jan; … - In: Health Economics Review 7 (2017) 32, pp. 1-11
open tibial fractures. Twenty-seven clinical and process variables were recorded retrospectively, and five main hospital …-of-stay (LOS) was found to be the most important variable driving the healthcare costs of open tibial fractures. Deep infection … lead to a 6-fold increase of LOS and 5-fold increase in total healthcare costs of open tibial fractures. Therefore …