INTRODUCTION The increasing disease burden of coronary artery disease (CAD) calls for sustainable cardiac service. Teaching hospitals and general hospitals in Malaysia are main providers of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a common treatment for CAD. Few studies have analyzed the contemporary data on local cardiac facilities. Service expansion and budget allocation require cost evidenc...

INTRODUCTION Almost all data on the cost of nosocomial pneumonia (NP) in the literature is associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia. This study aims to determine the economic burden of nosocomial pneumonia in clinical inpatients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data on costs of the 154 adult patients (97 male, 57 female; mean age 64.53 ± 14.92) who were hospitalized in non-intensive care clinics...

BACKGROUND Hospitalization expenses for the therapy of lung cancer are not only a direct economic burden on patients, but also the focus of medical insurance departments. Therefore, the method for classifying and analyzing lung cancer hospitalization expenses so as to predict reasonable medical cost has become an issue of common interest for both hospitals and insurance institutions. METHODS ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the costs of hospitalizations related to heart failure (HF) among patients aged 18 to 64 years by diagnosis status. BACKGROUND There are few reports on HF-related hospitalization costs in patients aged 18 to 64 years, although this group has had increased HF hospitalization rates in recent decades. METHODS Using the 2005 MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters inpat...

BACKGROUND We assessed variations in hospitalization parameters and costs among asthmatic children in four Nordic countries by geographic location and age groups. METHODS Cross-sectional, county-level aggregate data on asthma-related hospitalizations in 1999, obtained from public national databases for children < 15 years old from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, together with country-sp...

BACKGROUND Surgical clipping or endovascular coiling are the main procedures used in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms, with a preference for endovascular coiling. In Morocco, the number of patients needing endovascular coiling is growing, but many of them do not have access to this technique. The aim of this study was to determine the main parameters associated with variations in the total c...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between severity of maxillofacial injuries determined by trauma scoring systems and its economic burden to patients in terms of cost and duration of hospitalization. MATERIALS AND METHODS Following ethical approval a retrospective chart review was undertaken at Meenakshi Ammal Dental College and Hospital to identify patien...