Cost analysis of different venues for treating suicide cases presented to the Emergency Department
Yazarlar (10)
Prof. Dr. Fatma Mutlu KUKUL GÜVEN Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Kenan Ahmet Türkdoğan Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Ali Duman Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Orhan Akpınar
Mücahit Kapçı Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Ertan Sönmez Bezm-İ Âlem Vakıf Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Abuzer Coşkun Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Hatice Akpınar
Özgür Söğüt Harran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. İlhan Korkmaz Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH-INDIA | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 0970-938X Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | SCI-Expanded | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 10-2014 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 25 / 4 / 431–436 | DOI | – |
| UAK Araştırma Alanları |
Fen Bilimleri ve Matematik
|
||
| Özet |
| Patients presented with poisoning-related suicide attempts is one of the most problematic cases of the emergency services. The most important reason for this being the failure to decide the department of the hospital in which these patients should be admitted to, following consultation. The objective of this study is to emphasize the cost-lowering effect of treatment and follow-up of such suicide cases in Emergency Departments (ED) instead of intensive care units. A total of 791 adult patients with suicidal attempts were retrospectively examined and their clinical and demographic data were included. In addition, the costs of their treatment in the ED, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Psychiatric Clinic between 01/01/2007 and 31/12/2011were compared. When patients were classified by their month of birth it was found that patients who born in January had the maximum tendency to commit suicide (n: 227, 28.7%), while those born in December were the least to do so (n: 30, 3.8%). Of all the patients, 122 (15.4%) were followed-up in Anesthesia Intensive Care (AIC), 639 (80.8%) in the Emergency Department Observation Unit and 30 (3.8%) in the Psychiatric Clinic. When costs of the patients who could receive the same medical treatment in case of necessity were compared; mean cost of the patients were found to be $665.44 for the patients treated in AIC, $204.09 for patients treated in EDs and $186.85 for those received treatments in the psychiatric clinic. We defined that it would be profitable if the intoxication cases were followed-up in the ED observation units and that ED's could be used more effectively than ICUs. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| cost | intoxication | emergency observation | patient follow-up | suicide |
