University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Researcher Publishes New Data on Cataracts (Robust Analysis of the Influencing Factors for Hospitalization Costs of Senile Cataracts Patients in Chengdu Considering Different Types of …): Eye Diseases and Conditions – Cataracts

Hospital & Nursing Home Daily

2024 MAY 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Hospital & Nursing Home Daily -- Investigators publish new report on cataracts. According to news reporting originating from Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Chengdu is one of the earliest pilot cities for urban-rural basic medical insurance integration in China. This study aimed to analyze the influencing factors of hospitalization costs of senile cataract in a tertiary hospital in Chengdu by robust method, especially considering the influence of medical insurance type.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: “A total of 1310 discharged patients from a tertiary hospital from January 2020 to June 2021 who were mainly diagnosed with senile cataracts were selected as the research subjects. Kruskal-Wallis H test and Spearman correlation analysis are used to conduct univariate statistical analysis. The robust multivariate linear regression model and a semi-parametric multivariate regression model are established to obtain the influencing factors for their hospitalization costs. The robust multivariate regression model results show that reimbursement ratio, number of surgeries, type of medical insurance, hospitalization days, number of additional diagnoses and material proportion have significant correlations with the response variable, i.e. total hospitalization costs of the senile cataract patients. In the robust multivariate regression analysis, the type of insurance is significantly associated with the hospitalization costs. Fixing other variables, the hospitalization costs of patients with UEBMI insurance were 7.6% higher than those with URRBMI insurance. Generalized additive model (GAM) can express the nonlinear relationship between explanatory variables and response variable.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Because of the nonlinear part of the GAM, the interpretation and description of the model can provide more knowledge than the linear models. In the GAM model, the type of insurance is also significantly related to the total costs. According to the regression effects of reimbursement ratio, number of surgeries, type of medical insurance, hospitalization days, number of additional diagnoses and material proportion on total costs, the paper aims to provide some references for promoting the reform of the local medical system and improving the eye health status and quality of life of middle-aged and elderly groups.”

For more information on this research see: Robust Analysis of the Influencing Factors for Hospitalization Costs of Senile Cataracts Patients in Chengdu Considering Different Types of Insurance. American Journal of Life Sciences, 2024,12(2). The publisher for American Journal of Life Sciences is Science Publishing Group.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajls.20241202.12.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Haitao Tian, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Tianjun Li, Shiqi Lu.