Kirsty van Stormbroek, Lisa O'Brien, Tania Rauch van der Merwe, Hellen Myezwa
Virtual communities of practice for novice occupational therapists: a vehicle for learning, support and professional identity strengthening?
Rural and remote health
paper aims estimate lifetime costs resulting abusive head trauma aht usa breakeven effectiveness prevention mathematical model incorporated data vital statistics healthcare cost utilization project kids inpatient database previous studies unit costs derived published sources societys perspective discounted lifetime cost aht averages 57 million 95 ci 3292 million death averages 26 million 95 ci 1029 million surviving aht victim including 224500 medical care related direct costs 2010 usd estimated 4824 incident aht cases 2010 estimated lifetime cost 135 billion 95 ci 55162 billion including 257 million medical care 552 million special education 322 million child protective servicescriminal justice 20 billion lost work 103 billion lost quality life government sources paid estimated 13 billion outofpocket benefits existing prevention programming would exceed costs prevents 2 cases child survives aht providers caregivers anticipate lifetime potentially costly lifethreatening care needs better effectiveness estimates needed broad prevention messaging intensive prevention targeting highrisk caregivers