Trends in Hospital Admission Rates and Associated Direct Healthcare Costs in Brazil: A Nationwide Retrospective Study between 2000 and 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Brazil, the increase in non-fatal events presents a new, unprecedented challenge for the free and universally accessible public healthcare system (SUS), the size and nature of which has yet to be reliably quantified. We examined the change in all-cause and cause-specific SUS hospital admissions during 2000 to 2015.

Materials and methods

Data on hospital admissions across 1,816 cities were collected from the Brazilian Unified Health System. The age-standardized rates of hospital admissions, the associated healthcare costs, and length of hospital stay were quantified. Stratum analyses were performed by age, sex, region, and cause-specific categories.

Results

Hospital admission rates decreased by 10.2‰ per decade to 54.2‰ in 2015. For admissions in 2015, he

SUBMITTER: Zhao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8454560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature