[The medical economic problem of the cost with the treatment for the fractures based on osteoporosis].
The fracture based on osteoporosis is increasing in the elderly population. The patient and his family suffer greatly from economic, mental and physical disadvantage during the treatment and the care. It is necessary about two million yen to treat one patient of the femoral neck fracture. But in the system of the health insurance, the patient over 75 years old does not have to pay about 50 thousand million yen. The whole country, it will be necessary over fifty thousand million yen. The cost for the fracture based on osteoporosis is very terrible in the point of medical economic problem.
Kimura
Akihiko
A
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokeidai Hospital.
D000368:Aged; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy*