Distribution characteristics of daily medicine cost of nonª²operation inpatients during hospitalization and its application

    WANG Xia, XU Yongª²Yong, LIU Danª²Hong

    Department of Health Statistics, School of Preventive Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi¬ðan 710033, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To explore the distribution characteristics of daily medicine cost of nonª²operation inpatients during hospitalization for a better control of medicine cost. METHODS: Database was sorted out with Visual FoxPro 6.0 and SPSS software was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: The changes of cost of daily medicine of nonª²operation inpatients during hospitalization fell into 3 types: slowly changing type, increasing in metaphase of hospitalization and fast increasing before discharge. 81.4% of the total hospitalization days were with cost of under £¤150 per day, which accounted for only 16.3% of total cost, while 7.5% of total hospitalization days were with cost of above £¤450 per day, which accounted for 63.7% of the total cost. The distribution characteristics of high cost of daily medicine: The days with high cost of daily medicine were mostly the day just before discharge and the day of discharge, accounting for 30% of the hospitalization days with higher daily medicine cost. CONCLUSION: There is some set distribution characteristics of daily medicine cost of nonª²operation inpatients during hospitalization. 63.7% of the total medicine cost is found on days with daily medicine cost of above £¤450. The day of discharge and the day just before discharge are the key time points for controlling the cost of medicine. ......