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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

腦性麻痺患者之醫療利用率

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the differences of medical utilization between patients with cerebral palsy (CP) and patients without using a population-based database in Taiwan. Data on the sampled subjects and their medical utilization were retrieved from the ＂Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID2000)＂. This study comprised of 2317 patients with CP and 6961 comparison subjects. Medical utilization was evaluated in the one-year follow-up period as follows: number of outpatient visits and inpatient days, and the mean costs of outpatient and inpatient treatment. A multivariate regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between CP and total costs of health care services. For rehabilitation services, patients with CP had a significantly higher number of outpatient visits (11.45 vs. 0.32, p ＜ 0.001) than the controls. For non-rehabilitation services, patients with CP had a significantly high number of outpatient visits (27.12 vs. 14.15, p ＜ 0.001) as well as significantly higher outpatient costs (NTD32203 vs. NTD11725, p ＜ 0.001) as compared to the controls. This study found that patients with CP had a significantly higher number of healthcare related visits, and had significantly higher healthcare related costs than age-matched controls.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

225

Last Page

234

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