Analysis of hospitalization costs and their influencing factors for diabetes mellitus

摘要

To investigate the medical charges of in-patients with diabetes and the influencing factors for effective hospital costs. Methods: The in-patients with diabetes (the first diagnosis was diabetes; the first three ICD-10 codes of which were between E10 and E14) in our hospital from January to September of 2014 were analyzed for their hospital costs using descriptive statistical methods. ANOVA and multiple linear regression methods were used. Conclusions: Age, the way of the medical expense, the number of complications, acute complications, and the hospital-stay length were influencing factors of medical costs of diabetes inpatients.