Spending more on trauma care doesn't translate to higher survival rates, study suggests
Friday, August 10, 2012 - 13:20
in Health & Medicine
A large-scale national review of U.S. patient records reveals that although survival rates are the same, the cost of treating trauma patients in the western United States is 33 percent higher than the bill for treating similarly injured patients in the Northeast. Overall, treatment costs were lower in the Northeast than anywhere in the United States.