Loughborough University
Browse
Kellezi_2015_The impact of_submitted_accepted.pdf (514.74 kB)

The impact of injuries on health service resource use and costs in primary and secondary care in the English NHS

Download (514.74 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2015-12-01, 11:29 authored by Blerina Kellezi, Darrin L. Baines, Carol Coupland, Kate Beckett, Jo BarnesJo Barnes, Jude Sleney, Nicola Christie, Denise Kendrick
Background Injuries in working age adults are common, but few studies examine NHS resource use or costs. Methods Costing study based on a cohort of 16- to 70-year olds admitted to hospital following unintentional injury in NHS Trusts in four UK centres. Participants completed resource-use questionnaires up to 12 months post-injury. Primary and secondary care, aids, adaptations, appliances and prescribed medications were costed. Mean costs by injury type and age group and costs per clinical commissioning group (CCG) were estimated. Results A total of 668 adults participated. Follow-up rates ranged from 77% at 1 month to 65% at 12 months. The mean cost of injuries over 12 months was £4691 per participant. Costs were highest for hip fractures (£5159), lower limb fractures (£4969) and multiple injuries (£4969). Secondary care accounted for 87% of mean costs across all injuries and primary care for 10%. The mean cost per CCG was £7.3 million (range £1.8 million–£25.6 million). The total cost across all English CCGs was £1.53 billion. Conclusions Unintentional injuries in working age adults result in high levels of NHS resource use and costs in the year following injury. Commissioning effective injury prevention interventions may reduce these costs.

Funding

This research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire (CLAHRC NDL).

History

School

  • Design

Published in

Journal of Public Health

Citation

KELLEZI, B. ...et al., 2016. The impact of injuries on health service resource use and costs in primary and secondary care in the English NHS. Journal of Public Health, 38(4), pp. e464-e471.

Publisher

© The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Public Health following peer review. The version of record KELLEZI, B. ...et al., 2015. The impact of injuries on health service resource use and costs in primary and secondary care in the English NHS. Journal of Public Health is available online at: http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/25/pubmed.fdv173.full.

ISSN

1741-3842

eISSN

1741-3850

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Loughborough Publications

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC