Objectives: To determine 1) the cost of hospitalization, the 1-week postdischarge cost, the total cost, and the economic burden of community-acquired pneumonia among patients aged 19 years or older in the Philippines and 2) the difference between the estimated costs and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) pneumonia case rate payments. Methods: The study involved two tertiar...

BACKGROUND The economic sustainability of all areas of medicine is under scrutiny. Limited data exist on the drivers of cost after a craniotomy for tumor resection (CTR). The objective of the present study was to develop and validate a predictive model of hospitalization cost after CTR. METHODS We performed a retrospective study involving CTR patients who were registered in the Nationwide Inp...

The latest years the number of immigrants at Greece has increased dramatically. Their impact on the National Health System (NHS) has not been yet thoroughly investigated. This paper analyses the cost of immigrants to the NHS hospitals of the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. The data are collected from 2005 to 2011 from five different hospitals and are analysed using linear mixed effects ...

Results In our study; it was detected that, the hospital acquired infections developed averagely on 18 day of hospitalization, and that, the hospitalization duration increased 16.1 days due to these infections and the mortality was 14.5% higher. The additional cost per patient was approximately calculated 4435$. It was detected that, patients with hospital acquired infection caused 83.4$ of add...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia results in substantial health care utilization costs. Much of these costs can be attributed to health care use resulting from nonadherence to treatment, relapse, and hospitalization. AIMS OF THE STUDY The objective of this research is to further estimate the health care resource utilization costs of patients with schizophrenia in the People's Republic of China, Korea,...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes is associated with acute and chronic complications and poses a large economic, social, and medical burden on patients and their families as well as society. OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate the direct economic burden of type 2 diabetes in China. DATA SOURCE systematic review on cost of illness, health care costs, direct service costs, drug costs, and health e...

OBJECTIVES The analysis goal was to estimate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) for the Comparison of Medical Therapy, Pacing, and Defibrillation in Heart Failure (COMPANION) trial patients who received cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) via pacemaker (CRT-P) or pacemaker-defibrillator (CRT-D) in combination with optimal pharmacological therapy (OPT) relative to patients with OP...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the incidence of pneumonia by COPD status and the excess cost of inpatient primary pneumonia in elders with COPD. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective, longitudinal study using claims linked to eligibility/demographic data for a 5% sample of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries from 2005 through 2007. METHODS Incidence rates of pneumonia were calculated for elders with and ...

Introduction: Hospitalization of patients with cancer has a significant economic impact and avoidance where unnecessary has great potential for significant cost savings for patients, individual hospitals and the health system in general. Methods: Demographic, clinical and economical data were collected from medical records in our hospital retrospectively. Oncology clinicians reviewed medical re...