Factors that associated with TB patient admission rate and TB inpatient service cost: A cross-sectional study in China

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hu, Hongyan ^a   Chen, Jiaying ^a   Sato, Kaori D ^b   Zhou, Yang ^c   Jiang, Hui ^d   Wu, Pingbo ^e   Wang, Hong ^f  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d Zhenjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e Hanzhong Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^f BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission rate; China; Health care financing; Service cost; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; AGED; ECONOMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85006207694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0097-x     Document Type: Article

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