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Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand*
The aim of this study was to estimate the treatment cost and formulate a cost-function for bacterial diarrhoea among patients in a Thai regional hospital. This study was an incidence-based cost-of-illness analysis from a hospital perspective, employing a micro-costing approach. It covered new episod...
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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19069623 |
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author | Riewpaiboon, Arthorn Intraprakan, Kwanduen Phoungkatesunthorn, Sukit |
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description | The aim of this study was to estimate the treatment cost and formulate a cost-function for bacterial diarrhoea among patients in a Thai regional hospital. This study was an incidence-based cost-of-illness analysis from a hospital perspective, employing a micro-costing approach. It covered new episodes of both outpatients and inpatients who were diagnosed to have bacterial diarrhoea (ICD-10 code A00-A05) and who received treatment during 1 October 2000–31 July 2003. Retrospective data were collected from medical records of the hospital. The study covered 384 episodes, and the mean age of patients was 24 years. The average treatment costs (at 2002 prices; US$ 1=approximately 40 Thai baht) were US$ 11.29, 76.78, and 44.72 per outpatient episode, inpatient episode, and outpatient/inpatient combined episode respectively. Furthermore, the positive significant predictor variables were: inpatient care, other Salmonella-associated infections, shigellosis, other bacterial intestinal infections, and the health insurance scheme. The fitted model was able to predict greater than 80% of the treatment cost. The estimation of simulated patients demonstrated a wide range of costs, from US$ 10 per episode to US$ 163 per episode. Overall, hospital administrators can apply these results in cost-containment interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-27406922010-10-18 Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* Riewpaiboon, Arthorn Intraprakan, Kwanduen Phoungkatesunthorn, Sukit J Health Popul Nutr Original Papers The aim of this study was to estimate the treatment cost and formulate a cost-function for bacterial diarrhoea among patients in a Thai regional hospital. This study was an incidence-based cost-of-illness analysis from a hospital perspective, employing a micro-costing approach. It covered new episodes of both outpatients and inpatients who were diagnosed to have bacterial diarrhoea (ICD-10 code A00-A05) and who received treatment during 1 October 2000–31 July 2003. Retrospective data were collected from medical records of the hospital. The study covered 384 episodes, and the mean age of patients was 24 years. The average treatment costs (at 2002 prices; US$ 1=approximately 40 Thai baht) were US$ 11.29, 76.78, and 44.72 per outpatient episode, inpatient episode, and outpatient/inpatient combined episode respectively. Furthermore, the positive significant predictor variables were: inpatient care, other Salmonella-associated infections, shigellosis, other bacterial intestinal infections, and the health insurance scheme. The fitted model was able to predict greater than 80% of the treatment cost. The estimation of simulated patients demonstrated a wide range of costs, from US$ 10 per episode to US$ 163 per episode. Overall, hospital administrators can apply these results in cost-containment interventions. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2008-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2740692/ /pubmed/19069623 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Riewpaiboon, Arthorn Intraprakan, Kwanduen Phoungkatesunthorn, Sukit Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* |
title | Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* |
title_full | Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* |
title_fullStr | Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* |
title_full_unstemmed | Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* |
title_short | Predicting Treatment Cost for Bacterial Diarrhoeaat a Regional Hospital in Thailand* |
title_sort | predicting treatment cost for bacterial diarrhoeaat a regional hospital in thailand* |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19069623 |
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