Multicultural emergency medicine epidemiology: A health economic analysis of patient visits.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is growing evidence to suggest that culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients cost the health system more than non-CALD patients because of a higher burden of disease and increased resource consumption. The present study aimed to compare the ED resource utilisation of CALD and non-CALD patients at a tertiary hospital in Sydney, Australia.

Methods

The total ED resource utilisation was calculated by separating each visit into diagnostic test cost and time spent in ED components. The time component was calculated using the product of the total length of stay and a resource cost per unit time measure. Diagnostic tests were costed using the Australian Medicare Benefit Schedule. A generalised additive model was developed to estimate the isolated effect

SUBMITTER: Moore N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092109 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature