Evaluation Ofcommunity Acquired Pneumonia Treatment Outcomes And Cost Of Illness And Development Of Mortality Model
| dc.contributor.author | Ali Al-Worafi, Yaser Mohammed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-04T08:23:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-04T08:23:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide including Malaysia. Identification of the differences in the outcome and cost between a university hospital and a general hospital (GH) could lead to the development of pneumonia interventions and guide the health team to accurately perform and administrate health care services effectively. The development and validation of the pneumonia mortality model, which is easily accessible at the time of admission can, identify patients who are at risks, and treat them appropriately. Treatment of CAP is costly and the cost is related to the length of hospital stay (LOS).Therefore, identification of the risk factors of increase the LOS is lead to decrease the cost of CAP treatment. Therefore, this study aims firstly to compare the treatment outcome and cost between a university hospital and a general hospital; secondly, to develop pneumonia mortality model in Hospital Pulau Pinang (HPP) and validation the model in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia(HUSM); thirdly, to identify the risk factors of increase the LOS. A retrospective observational study was conducted among the adult patients with CAP who admitted to the Penang General HPP and to the HUSM from 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2008. Generally, there is no significant difference between the outcome between the HUSM and HPP. However, there is a significant difference between the cost between the HUSM and HPP. The findings show that the HPP provided a similar treatment outcome at lower CAP treatment cost in comparison to HUSM. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/8818 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Universiti Sains Malaysia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pneumonia Treatment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cost Of Illness | en_US |
| dc.title | Evaluation Ofcommunity Acquired Pneumonia Treatment Outcomes And Cost Of Illness And Development Of Mortality Model | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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