MEDICAL RESOURCE UTILIZATION OF ISCHEMIC STROKE PATIENTS WITH READMISSION- A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF HOSPITALIZATION DATA FROM BEIJING MEDICAL INSURANCE DATABASE
Author(s)
Wen L1, Wu J2, Yang L1
1Peking University, Beijing, China, 2Bayer, Beijing, China
OBJECTIVES: To describe and compare the first hospitalization cost and the readmission cost of Ischemic Stroke (IS) patients at Beijing urban area. METHODS: Retrospective data on hospitalization of IS was selected from Beijing urban employees and residents medical insurance database. We randomly selected 10% of patients first diagnosed as IS during January 2012- December, 2012and then followed those patients to September 2013. 4504 patients were identified in our study and then 2371 patients reoccurred during the observation period. All information of patient demographic characters, length of stay and clinical costs were collected. The descriptive statistics were used in the data analysis. The costs of 2013 were converted into 2012 year price with discount rate 3.5%. RESULTS: We analyzed the 2371 patients with recurrence of IS,(mean age 69.482±±￥±￥±￥±±± in the second hospitalization and 15 days(IQR11-23,mean 18.82± CONCLUSIONS: Patients with readmission took a high percentage of all hospitalized IS patients and caused heavy hospitalization cost. Hospitalizations of the second time had shorter length of stay than those at the first hospitalization and the third or more, total hospitalization cost of different admissions showed no significant difference.
Conference/Value in Health Info
2015-05, ISPOR 2015, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Value in Health, Vol. 18, No. 3 (May 2015)
Code
PHS133
Topic
Economic Evaluation
Topic Subcategory
Cost/Cost of Illness/Resource Use Studies
Disease
Cardiovascular Disorders