Objective: To explore correclational relationship between the risk factors and medical resources consumption in cardiovascular disease patients.
Methods: A database containing 44940 cardiovascular disease patients in a southern Taiwan Medical center from year 2003 to 2005 was chosen as studying sample. By applying Charlson Comorbidity Index as one of the major risk factors to these cardiovascular disease patients, then using liner regression to analyze the data for their relationship with medical resources consumption.
Results: Medical resources consumption increases as the cardiovascular disease patients become older. The higher the comorbidity index weight with the patient, the more the patient consumes medical resources. A patient¡¦s comorbidity index weight has great influence to the length of hospital stay of the patient and the frequency of clinic visit of the patient. The higher the comorbidity index weight a patient he or she, is likely to stay in hospital longer or to see doctors more often. The variance inflation factor (VIF) of each independent variable is ranged between 1 and 1.343, which means there are no high correlations between independent variables in the modes. In other words, there is no correlative influence effect that would invalidate the assumption.
Conclusion: The findings of this study can be a good reference to hospital disease management. In addition, they can be applied to predicting the risk factor in medical resources consumption. Also they can be adapted into medical insurance payment system, thereby improving medical resource distribution.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0115107-120258 |
| Date | 15 January 2007 |
| Creators | Chen, Hsiu-ying |
| Contributors | Chung-Fu Lan, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0115107-120258 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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