Cost-effectiveness of medical migration for chronic kidney disease: a national cross-sectional study in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The phenomenon of medical migration is common in China. Due to the limited capacity and substantial geographical variation in medical practice, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) travel more frequently to seek medical care. We aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of medical migration for CKD patients in China and provide real-world evidence for the allocation of CKD resources.

Methods

Records of patients with CKD between January 2014 and December 2018 were extracted from a large national database. A patient is defined as a medical migrant if she travelled across the provincial border to a non-residential province to be admitted for inpatient care. The propensity score matching method is used to estimate the effect of medical migration on medical expendit

SUBMITTER: Ao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9281168 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature