A study of social services for the patients investigated with computed tomography at Siriraj Hospital.

ABSTRACT

The medical social services, with special reference to the reduction of fee, for out-patients who were investigated with computed tomography in the Department of Radiology, Siriraj Hospital, between October 3, B.E. 2524 to February 28, B.E. 2528 were analyzed. The total number of patients were 253 or 3.92 percent of the total 6450 computerized patients. The age of the patients, sex, domiciliary origin, profession and side of computed tomographic study are demonstrated in 6 tables. Fifty-one point four of the consulted patients were investigated free of charge, and 48.6 percent were partially charged. Eighteen percent of the patients were charged more than 1000 bahts.