碩士 / 臺北醫學大學 / 醫務管理學系 / 93 / Thalassemia is a hereditary blood disease. If husband and wife has the same abnormal gene, they will have a normal child in 25% , a child with abnormal gene in 50%, a child with Thalassemia Major in 25%.
The main purpose of this research is to realize the cost of illness on Thalassemia Major, and consumption of production due to Thalassemia Major. There are two data resources in This research. In the first part, this research using ‘National Health Insurance Research Database in 2003’ to estimate medical costs with 318 patients who have Thalassemia Major. And convenience samples of 122 Thalassemia Major patients were extracted from two large teaching hospitals in Taipei and Kaoshiung. The data was collected through interviews. Through the face-to-face interviews.
The result is the cost of illness in 2003 of each patient is NT$2,170,235.95 on average. The direct cost is NT$257,663.63, and the indirect cost is NT$1,912,572.32. The direct cost : the indirect cost =11.87%：88.13%. The indirect costs is the highest. In the indirect cost, the mortality costs is NT$1,736,090.69 higher than the morbidity costs (80.00% of the cost of illness). In 2003, the total costs of illness on 318 patients who have Thalassemia Major is NT$ 116,103,239.34.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/093TMC00528018 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Li- Ching Chao, 趙儷淨 |
| Contributors | Chao-Hsiun Tang, 湯澡薰 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 74 |
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