การประมาณค่าต้นทุนการรักษาพยาบาลผู้ป่วยนอกโรคเบาหวานในโรงพยาบาลชุมชน

Wikritnarakorn Kongdaeng

Authors

Wikritnarakorn Kongdaeng โรงพยาบาลสตูล ต.พิมาน อ.เมือง จ.สตูล 91000 โทร 080-5417-774

Keywords:

Diabetes, Medical Costs, Community Hospital

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted to analyze the cost of hospitalization for diabetes mellitus patients in community hospital. Data were collected from hospital information system of 11,769 cases. The results showed that the patients were male 33.3%, female 66.7%, and 53 years old on average (min = 8, maximum = 93). Medical costs during 4-year period were 11,125,389 Baht (mean = 945 Baht). The age was not associated with medical unit cost, but the medical costs were increasing in every single year and patients who were older than 80 years had highest medical costs. This study suggests that medical cost trend is expected to increase among diabetic patients in out- patient department in community hospital could contribute to financial crisis of the community hospital.

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