ObjectiveTo predict the total hospitalization expenses of bronchopneumonia inpatients in a tertiay hospital of Sichuan Province through BP neural network and support vector machine models, and analyze the influencing factors.MethodsThe home page information of 749 cases of bronchopneumonia discharged from a tertiay hospital of Sichuan Province in 2017 was collected and compiled. The BP neural network model and the support vector machine model were simulated by SPSS 20.0 and Clementine softwares respectively to predict the total hospitalization expenses and analyze the influencing factors.ResultsThe accuracy rate of the BP neural network model in predicting the total hospitalization expenses was 81.2%, and the top three influencing factors and their importances were length of hospital stay (0.477), age (0.154), and discharge department (0.083). The accuracy rate of the support vector machine model in predicting the total hospitalization expenses was 93.4%, and the top three influencing factors and their importances were length of hospital stay (0.215), age (0.196), and marital status (0.172), but after stratified analysis by Mantel-Haenszel method, the correlation between marital status and total hospitalization expenses was not statistically significant (χ2=0.137, P=0.711).ConclusionsThe BP neural network model and the support vector machine model can be applied to predicting the total hospitalization expenses and analyzing the influencing factors of patients with bronchopneumonia. In this study, the prediction effect of the support vector machine is better than that of the BP neural network model. Length of hospital stay is an important influencing factor of total hospitalization expenses of bronchopneumonia patients, so shortening the length of hospital stay can significantly lighten the economic burden of these patients.
Objective To analyze the impact of removing medicine makeups and two rounds of medical service price adjustment reform on inpatient expenses, and to provide reference for policy-making and adjustment of hospital management strategy. Methods Select the front page data of medical records of the case hospital medical record management system from 2016 to 2018. According to the time of cancellation of drug addition and two rounds of medical service price adjustment reform, the data on the first page of medical records in the hospital medical record management system are divided into two groups, including before the implementation of the policy (2016) and after the implementation of the policy (2017-2018). Interrupted time series (ITS) was used to analyze the changes of hospitalization expenses before and after the adjustment of the policy. Results Before the implementation of the policy, the average hospitalization expenses in 2016 was (17 863.35±334.73) yuan; After the implementation of the policy, the average hospitalization expenses in 2017 was (18 066.16±398.42) yuan, and the average hospitalization expenses in 2018 was (18 238.95±258.28) yuan. ITS analysis showed that before the implementation of the policy, the average hospitalization expenses of patients increased by 26.616 yuan per month, but there was no statistical significance (P=0.323). In the month when the policy was implemented (December 2016), the average hospitalization expenses of patients decreased by 141.212 yuan, but there was no statistical significance (P=0.547). After the implementation of the policy, the slope of average hospitalization expenses of patients 22.363, and the inpatient expenses showed an upward trend, but there was no statistical significance (P=0.881). In the past three years, the drug expenses has decreased by 13.64%, the material expenses has decreased by 3.69%, and the labor expenses has increased by 12.25%. Conclusions After the removing medicine makeups and two rounds of medical service price adjustment reform, the drug expenses and material expenses decreased during hospitalization, and the labor expenses increased, but no change in hospitalization expenses.
Objective To analyze the hospitalization expenses and structure of day surgery diseases between general hospital and traditional Chinese medicine hospital, so as to provide a basis for the reform policy formulation of the payment mode of traditional Chinese medicine medical insurance and the optimization of hospital management. Methods Relevant data such as hospitalization expenses and expenses structure of day surgery of one general hospital and one traditional Chinese medicine hospital in Shanghai between January 1, 2019 and June 30, 2022 were selected. The hospitalization expenses and expenses structure of day surgery in traditional Chinese medicine hospital and general hospital were analyzed. Results A total of 95232 day surgery cases were selected in the case hospitals, including 1389 cases in traditional Chinese medicine hospital and 93843 cases in general hospital. The age of day surgery patients in traditional Chinese medicine hospital was smaller than that in general hospital (P<0.001). The total hospitalization expenses [4379.6 (2293.2, 7563.4) vs. 7629.5 (4467.5, 14154.0) yuan], drug expenses [343.0 (65.0, 1107.0) vs. 749.0 (64.0, 1419.0) yuan], consumables expenses [858.8 (162.2, 1630.1) vs. 1951.0 (620.1, 5720.7) yuan], technical labor expenses [1994.8 (1116.8, 3252.4) vs. 3943.3 (2510.8, 6123.4) yuan] of day surgery patients in traditional Chinese medicine hospital were lower than those of patients in general hospital (P<0.001), and the examination expenses were higher than those of patients in general hospital [432.0 (0.0, 898.5) vs. 40.0 (0.0, 418.0) yuan, P<0.001]. In terms of the total hospitalization expenses structure of patients undergoing day surgery, the proportion of technical labor expenses in traditional Chinese medicine hospital was the highest (42.5%), and the proportion of consumables expenses in general hospital was the highest (43.7%). The specialty of day surgery in the traditional Chinese medicine hospital mainly focused on gynecology, general surgery, anorectal surgery and pain medicine, with the highest average expenses in ophthalmology. The specialty of day surgery in the general hospital mainly focused on urology, biliary, pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery, ophthalmology and gynecolog, with the highest average expenses in orthopedics. There was no statistically significant difference between the age of patients undergoing hemorrhoidectomy in traditional Chinese medicine hospital and that in general hospital (P>0.05). The total hospitalization expenses [7177.4 (6057.5, 8225.7) vs. 10730.3 (8895.7, 14291.4) yuan], drug expenses [838.0 (441.0, 1342.0) vs. 1532.0 (1335.0, 1698.0) yuan], consumables expenses [4518.7 (4268.3, 5084.9) vs. 5550.9 (4066.6, 8340.7) yuan], technical labor expenses [1138.8 (911.3, 1414.2) vs. 3793.9 (2997.1, 4410.3) yuan] of day surgery patients undergoing hemorrhoidectomy in traditional Chinese medicine hospital were lower than those of patients in general hospital (P<0.05), and the examination expenses were higher than those of patients in general hospital [329.0 (0.0, 598.0) vs. 40.0 (40.0, 40.0) yuan, P<0.05]. In terms of the total hospitalization expenses structure of day surgery patients undergoing hemorrhoidectomy, the highest proportion was consumables expenses both in traditional Chinese medicine hospital and general hospital (63.8% and 53.6%, respectively). Conclusions There are differences between the hospitalization expenses of day surgery in traditional Chinese medicine hospital and general hospital. The dominant disease types of day surgery in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals need to be further cultivated. In the future, when the traditional Chinese medicine medical institutions implement the payment according to the diagnosis-related group/diagnosis-intervention packet, they should fully combine the actual situation of the medical institutions and the characteristics of the disease type, and at the same time, they need to further establish the medical fine management based on the disease type quality evaluation.