Utilisation of health services among urban patients who had an ischaemic stroke with different health insurance - a cross-sectional study in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigates the disparities in the utilisation of patient health services for patients who had a stroke covered by different urban basic health insurance schemes in China.

Design

We conducted descriptive analysis based on a 5% random sample from claims data of China Urban Employees' Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI) and Urban Residents' Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) in 2015, supplied by the China Health Insurance Research Association.

Setting

Chinese urban social insurance system.

Participants

A total of 56 485 patients who had a stroke were identified, including 36 487 UEBMI patients and 19 998 URBMI patients.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome measures include annual number of hospitalisations, average len

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7549448 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature