@article{ref1,
title="Motorcycle helmets: the economic burden of an incomplete helmet law to medical care in the state of Connecticut",
journal="Connecticut medicine",
year="2015",
author="Wiznia, Daniel H. and Averbukh, Leon and Kim, Chang-Yeon and Goel, Alex and Leslie, Michael P.",
volume="79",
number="8",
pages="453-459",
abstract="The lack of a mandatory motorcycle helmet law leads to increased injury severity and increased health care costs. This study presents a financial model to estimate how the lack of a mandatory helmet law impacts the cost of health care in the state of Connecticut. The average cost to treat a helmeted rider and a nonhelmeted rider was $3,112 and $5,746 respectively (cost adjusted for year 2014). The total hospital treatment cost in the state of Connecticut from 2003 through 2012 was $73,106,197, with $51,508,804 attributed to nonhelmeted riders and $21,597,393 attributed to helmeted riders. The total Medicaid cost to the state of Connecticut for treating nonhelmeted patients was $18,277,317. This model demonstrates that the lack of a mandatory helmet law increases overall health care costs to the state of Connecticut, and provides a framework by which hospital costs can be reduced to contribute to the economic stability of health care economics in the state.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-6178",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}