Medical Expenditures of Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations in the United States
Medical Expenditures of Diabetes-Related Hospitalizations in the United States
Author(s): Venhong Yan, Sambasiva Rao Gangineni, Yiting Zhang, Jun Wang, Guanglan Zhang, Lou ChitkushevSubject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, Education, Higher Education , ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Medical expenditure; Diabetes; Cost of inpatient care
Summary/Abstract: Using data from the Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Databases, we studied the characteristics of medical expenditures associated with diabetes-related hospitalizations (inpatient data). We tried to identify the specific macro-level (socio-economic) and micro-level (individual-patient-related) factors that affect the cost of inpatient care among diabetes patient and to study if there is a significant difference between inpatient care expenditures of women and men.
Journal: Computer Science and Education in Computer Science
- Issue Year: 15/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 85-90
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English