Analysis of influencing factors of hospitalization expenses of HIV/AIDS patients in a public hospital in Shenzhen

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the influencing factors of hospitalization costs of 700 HIV/AIDS patients in a hospital in Shenzhen. Methods: Descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the influencing factors of hospitalization expenses, distinguish the patients with medicare and those without medicare, gray association was used to analyze the degree of association between various costs and hospitalization costs. Results: In 700 cases of HIV/AIDS patients, the influencing factor of total hospitalization cost is the length of hospital stay (LOS). The influencing factor of hospitalization cost of medical insurance and self-paying patients includes the LOS and the way of payment, the first three high expenses of hospitalization are western medicine, laboratory and physical therapy expenses. ursing and bed expenses have the highest correlation with hospitalization expenses, while the correlation of other items is high. Conclusion: To strengthen the supervision and management of hospitals, reduce the proportion of drugs and consumables, shorten the length of hospitalization, can effectively reduce the hospitalization cost and reduce the economic burden of patients' diseases