The cost of treating trauma patients in the western United States is 33 percent higher than the bill in the Northeast, but survival rates are the same, a large-scale review of national patient records reveals. Overall, treatment costs were lower in the Northeast than anywhere in the United States. The findings by Johns Hopkins researchers, published in iThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/i, suggest that skyrocketing health care costs could ...Saturday, 11 August 2012
Survival Rates Do Not Improve by Spending More on Trauma Care
The cost of treating trauma patients in the western United States is 33 percent higher than the bill in the Northeast, but survival rates are the same, a large-scale review of national patient records reveals. Overall, treatment costs were lower in the Northeast than anywhere in the United States. The findings by Johns Hopkins researchers, published in iThe Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/i, suggest that skyrocketing health care costs could ...
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