| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 84 === The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence-based
costs of illness of Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
(NIDDM) and its related diseases in 1995 from the societal per-
spective. The study is a cross sectional retrospective sampled
survey. The study population was the NIDDM patients that
received either outpatient or inpatient services from a medical
center in Taipei during April and September,1995.Stratified
random sampling was used to select study cases. Data related to
patients'' character- istics and services used were collected by
sending a self- administered questionnaire through the mail.
Data related to the charged and diagnosis were supplied by the
various departments of the medical center.The total costs of
illness contains direct costs and morbidity costs. The direct
costs include costs of medical services and transportation fee;
the morbidity costs include loss of salary of patients and
their accompany family members.However, the intangible costs
and mortality costs were not estimated due to unavailability of
data.The major findings are as follows: 1.The average costs of
patients with NIDDM are NT$52,532 in 1995 .Among this number,
85.48%(NT$44,903) were direct costs and 14.52% (NT$7,629) were
indirect costs. 2.In terms of detailed cost items, the largest
and the second largest part of the total costs were the costs
for inpatient care (29.39%) and the costs for outpatient
care(28.39%). 3.In terms of medical care utilization, the
average physician visits and the average number of admissions
of NIDDM patients in 1995 were 10.12 times and 0.21 times,
respectively. 4.In terms of the average work loss days for
NIDDM patients and their accompany family members in 1995, they
were 2.7 days and 2.1 days, respectively.
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