2006 Volume 55 Issue 2 Pages 128-131
The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between preoperative complications and hospital expenses in femoral intertrochanteric fractures. We studies 34 patients who were hospitalized and operatad on in our hospital. The hospital expenses of patients who had preoparative complications were higher. The difference between those with and without the complications was almost 120,000 yen. But treatment expenses for the complications were less than expected. We found that hospital expenses increased in proportion to the duration of hospitalization, indicationg that increase in hospital expenses is not due to the cost of the treatment for complications but rather for the extended duration of hospitalization. We concluded that shortening the duration of hospitalization is an adequate means of reducing hospital expenses.
