What is it about?
To evaluate the awareness amongst the beneficiary about the costs of medical services in a hospital which provides all services at no cost and also to analyse whether education level of the beneficiary client, number of days stayed in hospital and their prior exposure of being treated on payment in other hospital has some bearing on cost estimation by the participants.
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Why is it important?
It revealed poor awareness of people in cost estimation of medical expenses. A significant ‘p’ value of < 0.05 was observed with respect to length of stay (p = 0.003), treatment modality (p = 0.000) and multivariate variable (treatment technique along with exposure to treatment in paid hospital, p = 0.008).
Perspectives
It was a cross sectional questionnaire based survey study. A total of 130 beneficiary clientele of a government hospital were interviewed. Two sample ‘t’ test and ANOVA were used for statistical analysis. Multivariate regression analysis was used to study effect of more than one independent variable on cost estimation. Scatter plot and box plots were used to study standard deviation.
Dr Bikram Jit Singh
MMDU Mullana
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This page is a summary of: Patient Awareness of Cost of Treatment at a Government Sponsored Hospital in India, Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society, December 2019, Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL),
DOI: 10.3126/jnps.v39i3.28614.
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