Objective To investigate constitution and costs of inpatients with circulation system diseases in Karamay Central Hospital in 2014 and provide baseline data for further evidence-based pharmacy studies of circulation system single disease. Methods The information of drug use and expenditure of circulation system diseases were collected from the hospital information system (HIS). We analyzed the data of frequency, constituent ratio and cumulative frequency by using Excel 2007 software. Results A total of 2 898 inpatients with circulation system diseases were included. The top three diseases were cerebral infarction, angina and hypertension. The cerebral infarction and coronary heart disease accounted for the largest proportion in the cost. The top one disease of total hospitalization cost, drug expense per capita and inspection cost per capita was cerebral infraction. Conclusion Based on the above results, cerebral infraction and angina were selected as the evidence-based pharmacy study goal of single disease.
Objective To investigate the disease constitution of Yaqian Township Health Center (YQT) in Xiaoshan District of Zhejiang Province from 2008 to 2010, so as to provide baseline data for further study. Methods Questionnaire and focus interview were carried out to collect inpatients’ case records from 2008 to 2010. The first diagnoses were classified according to ICD-10, and the data of discharge diagnoses were rearranged and analyzed by using Excel 2003 and SPSS 13.0 software. Results a) The total numbers of inpatients were 182, 195 and 248 from 2008 to 2010, respectively; b) The disease spectrum included 9-14 categories, which accounted for 47.6%-66.7% of ICD-10; c) The top 6 systematic diseases accounted for 37.37%-75.39%, which included the circulatory, injury, digestive, respiratory, neoplasms and urinary and reproductive systematic diseases; d) A total of 8 of the top 15 single diseases were the same, including hypertension, great saphenous vein varices, redundant prepuce, lung cancer, fracture, superficial injuries, acute appendicitis, and inguinal hernia; and e) The constitution ratio of the chronic diseases, compared with the acute ones, was higher in 2008, but lower in 2009 and 2010. Conclusion a) In recent three years, the main systematic diseases seen in YQT have been circulatory, injury, digestive, respiratory, neoplasms, and urinary and reproductive systematic diseases. The newly increased diseases in 2010 were pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium. The acute diseases mainly are fracture and injure, while the chronic diseases mostly are hypertension; b) A total of 8 of the top 15 single diseases are the same, indicating the stability of the common inpatients’ diseases; and c) Attention should be paid in future to the chronic diseases management, women’s health and specialized subject construction.
Objective To retrospectively investigate the disease constitution of no less than 60-year-old inpatients in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University in 2011, and to compare with the outpatients in the corresponding period, so as to provide baseline data for further study. Methods The inpatients’ information in 2011 was collected from hospital information system (HIS). The diseases were classified according to ICD-10 based on the first discharge diagnosis. Data rearrangement and analysis were carried out by Microsoft Excel software. Results a) The person time of no less than 60-year-old inpatients were 47 233 in 2011, accounted for 30.35% of all inpatients in the corresponding period. b) The top ten systematic diseases were neoplasm, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, eyes, factors influencing health status and contacting with health services, genitourinary, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue, nervous, and injury, poisoning and other consequences of external causes diseases, respectively. c) The male inpatients were more than the female who suffering from the top ten systematic diseases, except for eyes, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue disease. d) Except for respiratory disease, the number of inpatients who suffered from the other top ten systematic diseases got decreased with age increasing. e) Neoplasm was the most common disease, and the person time of malignant neoplasm inpatients was 10 467 (91.93%). f) The cumulative constituent ratio of the top three malignant neoplasms was 75.43%, including malignant neoplasms of digestive organs, respiratory and intrathoracic organs as well as lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissues. g) The top five malignant neoplasms of digestive organs accounted for 87.81%, including malignant neoplasms of rectum, stomach, oesophagus, liver and intrahepatic bile ducts as well as colon. h) The bronchus and lung malignant neoplasms accounted for 90.4% of all malignant neoplasms of respiratory and intrathoracic organs inpatients. i) The cumulative constituent ratio of the top four malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissues was 84.45%, including multiple myeloma and malignant plasma cell neoplasms, other and unspecified types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloid leukaemia, and diffuse non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Conclusion The male inpatients are more than female in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University in 2011. Most inpatients are at age from 60 to 79 years old. The most common systematic disease is neoplasm, especially the malignant neoplasms with higher constituent ratio, of which the malignant neoplasms of digestive organs, respiratory and intrathoracic organs, and lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissues were more common than others.
Objective To investigate disease constitution of elderly inpatient in the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University in Beijing in 2011, so as to provide baseline data for further study. Methods Elderly (patients no less than 60 years old) inpatients’ records in the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University in 2011 were collected. Based on all the diagnosis on hospital discharge records, the diseases were standardized and classified according to the International Classification of Disease, 10th Edition (ICD-10). Data (including general information of the inpatients, all discharge diagnosis, and the distribution of disease type, age and sex) were analyzed through descriptive analysis using Microsoft Excel 2007 software. SPSS 17.0 software was performed for hypothesis test. Results a) The total numbers of elderly inpatients were 13 807 in 2011, accounting for 39.79% of all the inpatients. Males were more than females (male: female=1.26 to 1). The average kind of disease each patient was diagnosed with was 4.41, ranging from 1 to 11. b) The disease spectrum of patients with one disease was nervous system diseases, neoplasms, and digestive system diseases. The primary and secondary diseases of patients with two diseases were mostly circulatory system diseases. c) All the diagnosis included 18 categories, the top 7 were circulatory system diseases, endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, digestive system diseases, respiratory system diseases, and nervous system diseases, accounting for 83.4% of all the diagnosis. The primary diagnosis included 18 categories, the top 5 were circulatory system diseases, neoplasms, digestive system diseases, respiratory system diseases, and nervous system diseases, accounting for 68.6% of all the elderly inpatients. d) In the circulatory system diseases, the top 5 diseases were cerebral infarction, occlusion and stenosis of precerebral arteries, not resulting in cerebral infarction, angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, chronic ischaemic heart disease, accounting for 69.8% of all the circulatory system diseases patients. Diseases in different age and gender group were cerebral infarction, angina, acute myocardial infarction, and chronic ischemic heart disease (Plt;0.05). Conclusion The disease constitution of the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University is complex, and the primary diagnosis is mainly circulatory system diseases. It can be concluded that in the following studies attention should be paid to drug utilization of circulatory system diseases, so as to provide evidence for making the China specific potentially inappropriate medicine list and disease prevention for the elderly.
Objective To analyze the death constitution of inpatients in The Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital from 2014 to 2015 and to provide baseline data for further rational drug use. Methods The medical records of death inpatients between 2014 and 2015 were collected. We classified all diseases according to the international classification of diseases coding (ICD-10) and analyzed the general situation, main death discharge diagnosis and single death diseases. Distribution of inpatients frequency, constituent ratio, cumulative frequency of death diseases were calculated by EXCEL 2007 software. Results (1) A total of 40 147 patients were discharged and 339 (8.44‰) inpatients died between 2014 and 2015. The sex ratio of male to female was 2.08 to 1 for death inpatients. (2) Death constitution of four diseases' categories were over 10%, including circulatory system diseases, exogenous injury or poisoning system diseases, respiratory system diseases, and digestive system diseases. (3) Death constitution of 3 diseases' categories were between 5% to 10%, including tumor, abnormal signs and symptoms, urogenital system diseases. (4) The main death cause single diseases were cerebral hemorrhage diseases, myocardial infarction, respiratory failure, damage, pneumonia, cancer, neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Conclusion The main death inpatients of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital are of the age 25 to 59, and the main death cause diseases are circulatory system diseases.
Objective To investigate the disease constitution in Xiaokunshan Township Health Center (XKST) in Songjiang District of Shanghai City from 2008 to 2010, so as to provide baseline data for further study. Methods Questionnaire and focus interview were carried out to collect the case records information of XKST inpatients from 2008 to 2010. The first diagnoses were classified according to ICD-10. Data including general information of the inpatients and discharge diagnosis etc. were rearranged and analyzed by using Excel and SPSS software. Results a) The total numbers of inpatients were 1608, 1328 and 1209 from 2008 to 2010, respectively. Males were fewer than females (48.60% vs. 51.40%, 46.69% vs. 53.31%, 44.58% vs. 55.42%); b) The systematic disease spectrum included 14 categories, which accounted for 66.7% of ICD-10; c) The top three systematic diseases accounted for 85.71%-87.10%, which included the respiratory, digestive, circulatory systematic diseases; d) The total 12 of the top 15 single diseases were the same, including chronic bronchitis, chronic cholecystitis, coronary heart disease, vertebral basilar artery insufficiency, cerebral infarction, acute bronchitis, acute upper respiratory tract infection, pneumonitis, acute tonsillitis, acute gastroenteritis, bronchopneumonias and acute enteritis; and e) The inpatients with acute diseases were more than those with chronic ones in 2008 and 2009, and they were mainly equal to or younger than 15 years old; while in 2010, the acute diseases were fewer than the chronic ones, and they were mainly seen in patients equal to or more than 65 years old, and males were more than females. Conclusion a) In recent three years, the main systematic diseases that inpatients have suffered are respiratory, digestive and circulatory diseases. The chronic diseases focus mainly on chronic bronchitis and coronary heart disease, while the acute diseases mainly are infectious diseases; b) The top 15 single diseases are stable since 12 of them are the same; and c) Further attention should be paid to the inpatients with chronic diseases over 65 years old and those with acute ones younger than 15 years old.
Objective To investigate inpatient disease constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from 2008 to 2010, in order to provide baseline data for medicine allocation of hospitals in western China and development of TCM hospitals. Methods A questionnaire combined with a subject interview was carried out, and the case records of inpatients from 2008 to 2010 were collected. The diseases in discharge records were classified according to International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) based on the first diagnosis. Data including general information of the inpatients, discharge diagnosis etc. were rearranged and analyzed by Excel software. Results a) The top four systematic diseases seen commonly from 2008 to 2010 were as follows: circulatory system diseases, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue diseases, respiratory system diseases and digestive system diseases. The top four single diseases were hypertension, intervertebral disc disease, diabetes, bronchitis, emphysema and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. Respiratory system diseases ranked the third in 2009 and 2010 from the fourth in 2008, and circulatory system diseases had ranked the first during the past three years; b) The following diseases as hypertension, bronchial emphysema and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, diabetes, fractures, airway (bronchus, lung) cancer, and viral hepatitis were commonly seen in males rather than in females. By contrast, intervertebral disc disease, gallstone disease and cholecystitis, and anemia were commonly seen in females; and c) Hypertension was commonly seen in the aged above 60 years old; intervertebral disc disease mainly focused on the patients at the age of 15 to 59; and bronchial emphysema and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, airway (bronchus, lung) cancer involved in the patients who were mostly over 60 years old. Conclusion a) The top four systematic diseases seen commonly from 2008to 2010 are as follows: circulatory system diseases, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue diseases, respiratory system diseases and digestive system diseases. The top four single diseases are hypertension, intervertebral disc disease, diabetes, bronchitis, emphysema and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. So these diseases should be taken into well consideration when making development plans by hospital and complementing essential drugs list by local development; b) Chronic diseases become the main disease for troubling Xinjiang population; and c) Male and female are susceptible to different diseases which should be rationally avoided in order to prevent the induced occurrence.
ObjectiveTo investigate constitution and financial burden of disease in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University during 2011-2012. MethodsThe data of in-patients (who had been discharged from the department of endocrinology and metabolism or discharged after being transferred to other departments for diagnosis and treatment in the West China Hospital from January 2011 to April 2012) were collected from the Hospital Information System (HIS) of the West China Hospital, including basic information, discharge diagnosis, hospital costs, the information about whether the patients had been registered the insurance in hospital, etc. We classified diseases according to ICD-10 based on each diagnosis when the patients were discharged on the first page of case reports. The data were input using Excel 2010 software, and statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 13.0 software. Resultsa) During 2011-2012, in the department of endocrinology and metabolism, the top five commonly-seen diseases of in-patients were:diabetes, followed by hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal/gonadal disease, diseases other than endocrine disorders, thyroid disease, and metabolic bone disease. b) The diseases of the top five average hospital stay included:diabetes, followed by malnutrition, metabolic bone disease, diseases other than endocrine disorders, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal/gonadal disease. c) The diseases of the top five total costs of included:diabetes, followed by metabolic bone disease, diseases other than endocrine disorders, malnutrition, and other nutrients deficiency. ConclusionDiabetes and its complications are the major disease as well as the major cause of the burden of disease in the in-patient department of endocrinology and metabolism of the West China Hospital of Sichuan University.
Objective To investigate the inpatient disease constitution of Jili Community Health Service Center (JCHSC) in Liuyang City of Hunan Province from 2008 to 2010, so as to learn about the local burden of diseases and to provide baseline data for further study. Methods Both questionnaire and focus interviews were applied to collect inpatients’ records in JCHSC between 2008 and 2010. Based on the primary diagnosis on hospital discharge record, the diseases were standardized and classified according to the International Classification of Disease, 10th Edition (ICD-10). Data including general information of the inpatients and discharge diagnosis were rearranged and analyzed by using Microsoft Excel 2003 and SPSS 13.0 software. Results a) The total numbers of inpatients were 4 804, 6 011 and 6 552 in 2008, 2009 and 2010, respectively, and males were less than famales (37.89% vs. 62.11%, 37.68% vs. 62.32%, 41.09% vs. 58.91%); b)The disease spectrum included 19 to 21 categories, accounting for 90.5% to 100% of ICD-10; c) The top 5 systematic diseases accounted for 78.91%-83.61%, including circulate, digestive, pregnancy, parturition and puerperium, genitourinary, and respiratory system diseases; d) The top 15 single diseases were coronary heart disease, urinary calculi, cholecyslithiasis or accompanied with cholecystitis, chronic gastritis, hypertension, diabetes, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary infection and inguinal hernia; and e) In these 3 years, most of the inpatients suffered from chronic diseases rather than acute diseases, mostly over 35 years old; while the acute diseases were commonly seen in patients younger than 15 years old. Conclusion a) In recent 3 years, the major inpatient systematic diseases are circulate, digestive, pregnancy, parturition and puerperium, genitourinary, and respiratory system diseases. The chronic diseases are more than the acute, and mainly focus on coronary heart disease, urinary calculi and chronic bronchitis; b) Nine common inpatient disease spectrum of the top 15 single diseases keep same in recent 3 years; and c) Further attention should be paid to the chronic patients over 35 years old and the acute patients less than 15 years old.
ObjectiveTo investigate old (the no less than 60-year-old) inpatient's diseases and cost constitution of a tertiary hospital in West China from 2008 to 2012, so as to provide baseline data for further research. MethodsThe case records of no less than 60-year-old inpatients in the tertiary hospital were collected from 2008 to 2012, and based on the first diagnose, the diseases were classified according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The data including general information of the inpatients, discharge diagnosis, length of hospital stay and hospitalization costs, were analyzed using Stata10.0 software. Resultsa) The total number of old inpatients was 109 585, and male (59.57%) was more than female (40.43%). The disease spectrum included 18 categories. The percentage of old inpatients increased from 31.57% (2008) to 34.25% (2010). b) The top three systematic diseases were neoplasms, diseases of the circulatory system and diseases of the digestive; the male inpatients were more than the female; the number of inpatients who suffered from the top three systematic diseases got decreased with age increasing; neoplasm was the most common disease, there were 34 944 malignant neoplasm inpatients. c) The cumulative constituent ratio of the top five malignant neoplasms in male and female inpatients were respectively 62.51% and 49.44%; and the top five malignant neoplasms of male inpatients were malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung, other medical care for neoplasm, malignant neoplasm of esophagus, malignant neoplasm of stomach and malignant neoplasm of prostate. The top five malignant neoplasms of female inpatients were other medical care for neoplasm, malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung, malignant neoplasm of breast, malignant neoplasm of stomach and malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri. d) The average length of hospital stay decreased from 14.12 days to 11.00 days since 2008, and the average cost per capita increased from ￥14 044.79 yuan to ￥18 932.81 yuan since 2008. The proportion of drug cost of inpatients hospitalization cost decreased from 47.21% to 42.16% since 2008. ConclusionThe male inpatients are more than female in the tertiary hospital from 2008 to 2012. The most common systematic disease is neoplasm, especially the malignant neoplasms with higher constituent ratio. The top five malignant neoplasms of male inpatients and female are different. The average length of stay in hospitals has declined in five years, however the average cost per capita has increased.