Analyzing the Hospitalization Expense and Management Status of Severe Mental Illness
10.7664/CHE20131017
- VernacularTitle:重性精神疾病的住院费用和管理现状的统计分析
- Author:
Junfang XU
;
Fenghua YU
;
Jian WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
severe mental illness;
hospitalization expense;
management status
- From:
Chinese Health Economics
2013;(10):53-56
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: To analyze the hospitalization expense and management status of severe mental illness, and to provide evidences for rational controls of medical expenses and the management of the patients. Methods:Collecting patients with severe mental illness from 2005 to 2012, analyzing the changing trends of hospitalization cost and management status with descriptive analysis, and use multiple linear regression to analyze the influence factors. Results: The average stay is 51 days, average medical costs by person and by day are RMB 8 319.69 and 169.02; treatment costs, drug costs and bed care costs are the main proportion. The medical costs were significantly affected by prolonged days of hospitalization, age, numbers of hospital admissions, nursing level and admitting diagnosis. The largest proportion of management system is schizophrenia, which counted 74.03% of current patients and the poverty incidence rate is 50.62%. Conclusions: Increasing the financial compensation to patients with severe mental illness, shorting hospital stay, strengthening the screening of patients with severe mental illness and incorporated into the management system would help to reduce the economic burden of the patients.
