Cost for diagnosis and management of trauma patients across different injury severity groups and cost of overtriage
| (n=population of the particular group of trauma patients) | Cost for diagnosis and treatment of patients (sum of costs) (% of overall costs) | Cost per patient (mean cost) |
| LOS≤48 hours and non-operative management and final outcome: hospital discharge (n=2104) | €120 761.92 (19.4) | €57.4 |
| LOS>48 hours or operative management or final outcome: death (n=216) | €502 377.88 (80.6) | €2325.82 |
| Patients (ISS≤15) who should have been transferred to a level III or IV trauma center equal (n=2244) | €314 809.49 (50.5) | €140.28 |
| Patients (ISS>15) who should have been transferred to our center (level I/II trauma center equal) (n=76) | €308 330.31 (49.5) | €4056.98 |
| Patients who fulfilled the EMS triage algorithm criteria for trauma center transfer (n=1111) | €557 460.63 (89.5) | €501.76 |
| Patients who did not fulfill the EMS algorithm criteria for trauma center transfer (n=1209) | €65 679.17 (10.5) | €54.32 |
| ISS≤3 (n=1785) | €102 619.17 (16.5) | €57.49 |
| 4≤ISS≤8 (n=328) | €60 476.1 (9.7) | €184.38 |
| 9≤ISS≤15 (n=131) | €151 714.22 (24.3) | €1158.12 |
| 16≤ISS≤24 (n=35) | €107 924.91 (17.3) | €3083.57 |
| ISS≥25 (n=41) | €200 405.40 (32.2) | €4887.94 |
EMS, emergency medical service; ISS, Injury Severity Score; LOS, length of hospital stay.