Exempel på colostomy

• Ileostomies and colostomies will be treated as aggregate variables.

• Some of the patients are likely to require an ileostomy or colostomy.

• We found that former patients gave much lower utility valuations for colostomy than did current patients.

• The admission for closure of the colostomy occurred within 3 months, on average (range: 2-5 months), with a mean total cost of $15,400.

• He suffered from angina and had survived heart attacks and five operations which had left him with a colostomy and a fistula bag.

• Once the perforated colon injury population was derived, cases were divided into two groups based on type of colon surgery (primary repair versus diverting colostomy).

• The mean total cost (including outliers) of the initial stay for the primary repair group was $32,800 versus $46,100 for the diverting colostomy group.

• Of those who survived to discharge, colostomy patients were referred to home health care services four times more frequently than those who had a primary repair.

• According to this analysis, the hospital cost of managing a perforated colon injury with a colostomy is almost twice as much as the cost of managing one with primary repair.

• This is what the diabetics, cancers, colostomies, epileptics and heart diseases have to read.

• Those who need colostomy bags receive them free.

• People who have a permanent fistula are exempt from prescription charges, and this includes people who use colostomy bags.

• She has had 25 operations—a colostomy, operations to repair, operations to deal with complications.

• She wrote to me saying that she has a heart condition and that her husband has had a colostomy.

• The average net ingredient cost of prescribing a colostomy bag in 1992 was £1·84.