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Objective:To explore the influential factors for hospitalization costs regarding the final phase of malignant tumor patients in Shanghai,and to explore the relevant policy for reasonable control of hospitalization costs.Methods:A total of 10 065 patients with malignant tumors were enrolled in this study.The multiple linear regression analysis was used to seek the determinants for hospitalization cost of malignant tumor patients during the final phase.Results:The median length of hospital stay was 43 days for the patients,with an average age of (70.73±12.87) years.Among them 61.66％ of hospitalized patients were male and the median hospitalization cost of malignancy was 55 447.84 yuan.Hospitalization cost showed the linear regression relationship with type of health care,hospital level,hospital types,tumor types,length of hospital stay,surgery,age,gender,and time from hospital admission to death.Conclusion:Proximity to death in malignant tumor patients is an important factor for the hospitalization cost.Medical resources should be allocated rationally,and the comprehensive measures should be taken to control the cost reasonably.
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The severity of disease can be used to evaluate the current situation of patients as well as to predict the diseases outcome.In the meantime, the severity among different diseases has been more and more applied in the evaluation of the patients at hospital level.This study collected and summarized different types of international disea-ses grouping tools'characteristics and applications based on the severity of disease, and their suitability and practical values in hospital performance evaluation were compared and analyzed.
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This paper uses the data collected from 138,477 patient discharge records of 37 Shanghai tertiary public hospitals in December 2013 and classifies all the records into different groups by using a localized diagnosis re-lated group tool.The coefficient of variation index ( CV) of each group was used to analyze the dispersion of average hospital cost per inpatient day for each group, in order to evaluate the suitability of diagnosis related group systems and to set the coefficients of difficulty ( relative weights) for each disease.The study has found that severity-based di-agnosis related group systems are more suitable and consistent.However, future studies should collect more detailed information on health costs in order to reflect the value of health professionals and technologies and therefore further improve diagnosis related classification and develop new systems that can be adapted to local conditions by applying the weights of different groups.