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Title: Therapy costs of adult patients admitting to emergency unit of a university hospital with asthma acute attack
Authors: Serinken, Mustafa
Dursunoglu, Neşe
Çimrin, A.H.
Keywords: Asthma attack
Emergency unit
Hospital cost
academic achievement
adolescent
adult
article
asthma
comorbidity
controlled study
data analysis
disease duration
disease severity
emergency ward
female
health insurance
hospital cost
human
major clinical study
male
patient compliance
primary school
retrospective study
rural area
statistical significance
university hospital
Acute Disease
Adolescent
Adult
Asthma
Costs and Cost Analysis
Educational Status
Emergency Medical Services
Emergency Service, Hospital
Female
Health Care Costs
Hospital Costs
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Admission
Patient Compliance
Retrospective Studies
Rural Population
Severity of Illness Index
Turkey
Young Adult
Abstract: In the present study, hospital costs of patients who admitted to the emergency department with asthma attack and several variables that could effect this cost were analyzed and data were collected in order to reduce economical burden of that disease was aimed. Between September 2005 and February 2007 patients with acute asthma attack, admitted to Pamukkale University Hospital Emergency Department were retrospectively evaluated. Totally 108 patients who met the inclusion criteria admitted to the emergency department with asthma acute attack. Of those 97 were women (89.8%). Forty mild, 51 moderate, 15 severe and 2 life-threatening attacks were detected. Severe and life-threatening attacks were more frequent in patients graduated from primary school compared with the other groups. Mean therapy costs of the patients who were hospitalized and treated in the emergency department were 836.60 ± 324.30 TL (Turkish Lira) and 170.66 ± 86.71 TL respectively. Treatment procedures consisted of 45.8% of and 38.5% hospital costs for patients treated in the emergency department and for patients hospitalized respectively. There was a statistically significant difference in the comparison of costs according to the attack severity (p= 0.0001). Education level of the patients had a significant effect on hospital costs (p= 0.025). Comorbidities were found a significant increasing factor of treatment costs (p= 0.017). There were no effects of sex, age, medical insurance or duration of asthma disease on the hospital costs. The relation between loweducation level, living in the rural area and admissions with severe attacks of asthma to emergency department show the importance of treatment success with patient compliance. Positive and negative factors effecting disease control should be detected by evaluating larger populations to reduce economical burden of asthma.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/6722
ISSN: 0494-1373
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