Ericka P von Kaeppler, Erik J Kramer, Claire A Donnelley, Hao-Hua Wu, Elliot Marseille, Edmund Eliezer, Heather J Roberts, David Shearer, Saam Morshed
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The Initial Economic Burden of Femur Fractures on Informal Caregivers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Background: Femur fracture patients require significant in-hospital care. The burden incurred by caregivers of such patients amplifies the direct costs of these injuries and remains unquantified.
Aim: Here we aim to establish the in-hospital economic burden faced by informal caregivers of femur fracture patients.
Methods: 70 unique caregivers for 46 femoral shaft fracture patients were interviewed. Incurred economic burden was determined by the Human Capital Approach, using standardized income data to quantify productivity loss (in $USD). Linear regression assessed the relationship between caregiver burden and patient time-in-hospital.
Results: The average economic burden incurred was $149, 9% of a caregiver's annual income and positively correlated with patient time in hospital (p<0.01).
Conclusion: Caregivers of patients treated operatively for femur fractures lost a large portion of their annual income, and this loss increased with patient time in hospital. These indirect costs of femur fracture treatment constitute an important component of the total injury burden.
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Driven and guided by the priorities articulated in the Malawi National Health Research Agenda, the Malawi Medical Journal publishes original research, short reports, case reports, viewpoints, insightful editorials and commentaries that are of high quality, informative and applicable to the Malawian and sub-Saharan Africa regions. Our particular interest is to publish evidence-based research that impacts and informs national health policies and medical practice in Malawi and the broader region.
Topics covered in the journal include, but are not limited to:
- Communicable diseases (HIV and AIDS, Malaria, TB, etc.)
- Non-communicable diseases (Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, etc.)
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- Mental health
- Environmental health
- Nutrition
- Health systems and health policy (Leadership, ethics, and governance)
- Community systems strengthening research
- Injury, trauma, and surgical disorders
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