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ArticleTitle 脊髄損傷リハビリテーションにおける合併症のおよぼす影響：特に, 褥瘡および尿路感染症による身体的・医療経済的損失について

AuthorList 北川恒実, 木村哲彦

Affiliation 日本医科大学医療管理学教室

Language JA

Volume 69

Issue 3

Year 2002

Page 268-277

Received October 30, 2001

Accepted December 25, 2001

Keywords spinal cord Injury, health economics, complications, urinary tract infection, decubitus ulcer, abstract

Abstract There are few studies on the many complications that disrupt the rehabilitation of patients with cervical cord injuries and their subsequent health-economic benefits. I particularly focused on the treatment of urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcers because these are very frequently encountered complications in a clinical setting. I examined how these complications affect the progress of rehabilitation and facilitate a patient's return to society. The subjects included ninety-eight cervical cord injury patients with tetraplegia who were discharged from the Rehabilitation Center for Severely Disabled Persons from 1995 to 2000. I retrospectively investigated these ninety-eight subjects regarding ninety-six items from clinical records, among which twenty items were selected because they are considered to be closely associated with outcome, such as age, sex, length of stay, medical expense, urinary tract infection, and decubitus ulcer. Moreover, I examined the influence that urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcer had on other items. The average length of stay and total medical expenses per patient were 1,174.4 ± 559.9 days and 13,563,128.4 ± 6,351,078.1 yen, respectively. Urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcer occurred at a rate of 97% in patients with cervical cord injury undergoing chronic stage rehabilitation, and these complications caused a two-fold prolongation of the length of stay and a three-fold increase in medical expenses compared with patients without complications. It is important to fully recognize that these complications produce many expenses as well as those for the medical treatment of cervical cord injury.

Correspondence to Tsunemi Kitagawa, Department of Health Services Administration, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan
t-kita@nms.ac.jp

ArticleTitle	脊髄損傷リハビリテーションにおける合併症のおよぼす影響：特に, 褥瘡および尿路感染症による身体的・医療経済的損失について
AuthorList	北川恒実, 木村哲彦
Affiliation	日本医科大学医療管理学教室
Language	JA
Volume	69
Issue	3
Year	2002
Page	268-277
Received	October 30, 2001
Accepted	December 25, 2001
Keywords	spinal cord Injury, health economics, complications, urinary tract infection, decubitus ulcer, abstract
Abstract	There are few studies on the many complications that disrupt the rehabilitation of patients with cervical cord injuries and their subsequent health-economic benefits. I particularly focused on the treatment of urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcers because these are very frequently encountered complications in a clinical setting. I examined how these complications affect the progress of rehabilitation and facilitate a patient's return to society. The subjects included ninety-eight cervical cord injury patients with tetraplegia who were discharged from the Rehabilitation Center for Severely Disabled Persons from 1995 to 2000. I retrospectively investigated these ninety-eight subjects regarding ninety-six items from clinical records, among which twenty items were selected because they are considered to be closely associated with outcome, such as age, sex, length of stay, medical expense, urinary tract infection, and decubitus ulcer. Moreover, I examined the influence that urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcer had on other items. The average length of stay and total medical expenses per patient were 1,174.4 ± 559.9 days and 13,563,128.4 ± 6,351,078.1 yen, respectively. Urinary tract infection and decubitus ulcer occurred at a rate of 97% in patients with cervical cord injury undergoing chronic stage rehabilitation, and these complications caused a two-fold prolongation of the length of stay and a three-fold increase in medical expenses compared with patients without complications. It is important to fully recognize that these complications produce many expenses as well as those for the medical treatment of cervical cord injury.
Correspondence to	Tsunemi Kitagawa, Department of Health Services Administration, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan t-kita@nms.ac.jp