Identification of Health Expenditures Determinants: A Model to Manage the Economic Burden of Cardiovascular Disease.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants influencing the costs of cardiovascular disease in the regional health service in Italy's Apulia region from 2014 to 2016. Data for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and atrial fibrillation (AF) were collected from the hospital discharge registry. Generalized linear models (GLM), and generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) were used to identify the role of random effects in improving the model performance. The study was based on socio-demographic variables and disease-specific variables (diagnosis-related group, hospitalization type, hospital stay, surgery, and economic burden of the hospital discharge form). Firstly, both models indicated an increase in health costs in 2016, and lower spending v

SUBMITTER: Salvatore FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8124329 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature