Management, Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Health Mark Q. 2023 Apr-Jun;40(2):174-189. doi: 10.1080/07359683.2021.2007331. Epub 2021 Nov 30.
Existing research on hospital charges is primarily focused on hospital admissions, but not on hospital readmissions. Our research fills this gap. We utilize the 2017 Hospital Readmissions database from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to empirically study factors that impact hospital charges for hospital readmissions. We focus on psychosis (DRG = 885) which has 609,360 records in 2017 in the AHRQ database. We employ regression analyses using patient demographics, inpatient care variables, and hospital characteristics to explain variance in hospital charges. Results show that inpatient care (diagnoses, procedures, length of stay), hospital ownership, and younger patients result in higher hospital charges.
现有关于医院收费的研究主要集中在医院入院方面，而不是医院再入院方面。我们的研究填补了这一空白。我们利用医疗保健研究与质量局（AHRQ）的 2017 年医院再入院数据库，从实证角度研究影响医院再入院收费的因素。我们专注于精神病（DRG = 885），2017 年 AHRQ 数据库中有 609360 条记录。我们使用回归分析方法，利用患者人口统计学、住院护理变量和医院特征来解释医院收费的差异。结果表明，住院护理（诊断、程序、住院时间）、医院所有权和年轻患者会导致医院收费更高。
