Table 4.
Health care costs of the EOL patients by geographical location and type of treatment (N = 792)
| Characteristics | Urban (N = 195) | Rural (N = 597) | P - value | Life-extending treatment (N = 379) |
Conservative treatment (N = 413) |
P- value | Western (N = 162) | Central (N = 242) | Eastern (N = 388) |
P - value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health expenditures | ||||||||||
| Per capita expenditures, mean (SD), US$ | 12,501 (15,711) | 5996 (6359) | 0.00 | 10,601 (12,611) | 4841 (5550) | 0.00 | 9808 (8.910) | 5814 (6372) | 7756 (11,948) | 0.00 |
| Including:out-of-pocket | 6225 (7221) | 3893 (4693) | 0.00 | 5852 (6574) | 3196 (3914) | 0.00 | 5063 (5917) | 3976 (4656) | 4516 (5802) | 0.00 |
| reimbursement | 6276 (11,558) | 2103 (2972) | 0.00 | 4749 (8768) | 1645 (2596) | 0.00 | 4745 (5301) | 1838 (2772) | 3240 (8270) | 0.00 |
| Inpatient health care utilization | ||||||||||
| Hospitalization in hospital, No. (%) | 179 (91.79) | 431 (72.19) | 0.00 | 379 (100) | 274 (66.34) | 0.00 | 142 (87.65) | 169 (69.83) | 299 (77.06) | 0.00 |
| Per capita hospital expenditures, mean (SD), US$ | 10,085 (12,384) | 4320 (5798) | 0.00 | 8467 (10,397) | 3236 (4516) | 0.00 | 8225 (8637) | 4086 (5740) | 5700 (9223) | 0.00 |
| Including:out-of-pocket | 4668 (5696) | 2570 (4241) | 0.00 | 4409 (5738) | 1873 (3094) | 0.00 | 3978 (5773) | 2490 (4045) | 3075 (4598) | 0.00 |
| reimbursement | 5417 (9025) | 1750 (2650) | 0.00 | 4058 (6977) | 1363 (2275) | 0.00 | 4247 (5127) | 1596 (2489) | 2625 (6327) | 0.00 |
| Hospital costs % total health care costs | 74.23 | 67.54 | 0.00 | 75.45 | 61.93 | 0.00 | 78.87 | 65.69 | 68.05 | 0.00 |
US$ Based on a currency exchange rate of the 6.6423 yuan to US$1.00 in 2016.Median and inter-quartile range cost date are available from the authors