Development of an algorithm to identify fall-related injuries and costs in Medicare data

Table 3 Average duration and cost per episode of care, by types of healthcare services and injuries

	Duration (days) ^b				Cost (2009) ^b
Type	Total	ED	In.	SNF	Total	Attributable
Total	17	1	2	5	$9,209	$6,159
Episodes by healthcare services ^a
Inpatient or SNF stay	31	1	6	13	$20,126	$13,754
ED visit or ED-related visit	7	1	0	0	$1,134	$508
Non-ED outpatient visit only	8	0	0	0	$745	$471
Episodes by injury ^a
Hip fracture	43	1	8	21	$29,939	$23,152
Non-hip fracture	20	1	2	4	$6,843	$4,361
Non-fracture injury	6	1	1	0	$3,171	$1,104

^a These rows are hierarchical and mutually exclusive, with highest level of care experienced in the category coming first
^b Duration and cost of episodes are conditional on the type of episode

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