Factors affecting health-care costs and hospitalizations among diabetic patients in Thai public hospitals

Value in Health

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Chaikledkaew, Usa ^a,b   Pongchareonsuk, Petcharat ^a   Chaiyakunapruk, Nathorn ^b,c,d   Ongphiphadhanakul, Boonsong ^e  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^c NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Health care costs; Hospitalizations; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THAILAND;

EID: 41749125486     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00369.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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