A comparison of analytic models for the costs of the hospitalized diabetic patients

Zigon, Giulia (author), Rosato, Rosalba (author), Bò, Simona (author), Gregori, Dario (author)

OBJECTIVE: To compare some survival models as applied to the estimation of thecosts of hospitalization as a function of several covariates in diabetic patients. The application of the Aalen regression model (Aalen, 1989) to medical costs is stressed. DESIGN: Retrospective observational study analyzinghospitalizations in a cohort of diabetic patients with a follow up of4.5 years. STUDY POPULATION: A total of 2550 patients have been included in the cohort, according to clinical-based enrollment standards. The patients with at least one hospitalization have been considered in this analysis. METHODS: Costs have been modelled using five different regression model: the ordinary least square regression model, the logistic regression model using the median and the third quartile of the costs distribution as cut-off points,the parametric survival model assuming Weibull distribution, the Cox proportional hazard model and the Aalen additive regression model. CONCLUSIONS: The Aalen additive regression model applied to the costs has the best performances in estimating the mean hospitalization costs for specific clinical profiles.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2005
• Number of pages: Str. 135-145
• Numbering: Vol. 2, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-22465
• UDC: 311
• ISSN on article: 1854-0023
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24325213
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2014

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• Title: Metodološki zvezki
• Shortened title: Metodol. zv.
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 1854-0023
• COBISS.SI-ID: 215795712