Estimation of long-term costs of postacute care in survivors of the methanol poisoning outbreak

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 11; no. 5; p. e043037
• Main Authors: Barták, Miroslav, Rogalewicz, Vladimír, Doubek, Jaroslav, Šejvl, Jaroslav, Petruželka, Benjamin, Zakharov, Sergey, Miovský, Michal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 19.05.2021; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Alcohol; Blindness; Brain damage; Brain research; Drunkenness; Eye examinations; Fatalities; Health care policy; Health insurance; Nervous system; Neurology; Patients; Poisoning; Quality of life; Subacute care; Visual impairment; Czech Republic; toxicology; ophthalmology; neurology; health economics

ObjectivesTo fill the existing research gap related to long-term costs of postacute care in methanol poisoning survivors, healthcare cost for 6 years after the outbreak has been modelled and estimated.DesignIn a prospective longitudinal cohort study, data collected from 55 survivors of the Czech met...