Table 2.
Annual direct medical costs and demographics of patients with prostate cancer in China between 2015 and 2017.
| Characteristics | Outpatient | Inpatient | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 1307) | (n = 3529) | (N = 3936) | |||||||||||||
| Annual direct medical costs of outpatients, meidan (IQR)a, USDb | P value | Annual direct medical costs of inpatients, meidan (IQR), USD | P value | Annual direct medical costs, meidan (IQR), USD | P value | Annual medication costs, meidan (IQR), USD | P value | Percentages of medication costs, meidan (IQR), % | P value | Annual OOPc, meidan (IQR), USD | P value | Percentages of OOP, meidan (IQR), % | P value | ||
| All patients | 399.8 (128.5, 1174.8) |
/ | 3557.5 (1488.9, 7280.9) |
/ | 3306.0 (1315.8, 7027.1) |
/ | 1851.1 (685.1, 4053.3) |
/ | 62.8 (40.0,83.6) |
/ | 622.4 (222.2, 1572.9) |
/ | 21.7 (12.6,33.4) |
/ | |
| Year | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 508.1 (131.3, 1694.4) |
< 0.001 | 3214.6 (1265.3, 7246.5) |
0.4470 | 2991.2 (1093.3, 6825.3) |
0.6230 | 1617.7 (614.7, 3895.8) |
0.1140 | 64.2 (41.3,86.1) |
< 0.05 | 563.5 (187.0, 1525.9) |
0.1920 | 21.6 (13.2,33.0) |
< 0.001 | |
| 2016 | 430.3 (138.3, 1094.2) |
3958.3 (1,554.3, 7975.9) |
3611.3 (1346., 7641.6) |
1987.0 (722.4, 4556.5) |
62.9 (40.6,83.2) |
620.0 (240.2, 1605.) |
19.3 (12.1,29.7) |
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| 2017 | 338.9 (124.3, 954.9) |
3650.4 (1612.2, 7130.3) |
3468.3 (1487.4, 6993.8) |
1938.6 (741.2, 4054.2) |
61.9 (38.0,81.9) |
688.9 (238.0, 1662.2) |
24.4 (13.0,36.1) |
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| Health insurance scheme | |||||||||||||||
| URRBMId | 192.5 (53.4, 517.6) |
< 0.001 | 2359.4 (977.3, 5,141.5) |
< 0.001 | 2300.1 (903.4, 5273.6) |
< 0.001 | 1095.0 (464.2, 2982.9) |
< 0.001 | 54.6 (36.7,76.1) |
< 0.001 | 926.6 (281.4, 2148.9) |
< 0.001 | 41.2 (25.8, 53.8) |
< 0.001 | |
| UEBMIe | 429.7 (136.9, 1232.7) |
3922.4 (1625.0, 7728.3) |
3543.3 (1406.9, 7393.8) |
2009.6 (749.9, 4277.2) |
64.3 (40.6,85.2) |
594.0 (215.8, 1467.0) |
20.0 (11.8, 29.7) |
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| Region | |||||||||||||||
| Eastern | 515.6 (149.5, 1486.7) |
< 0.001 | 4593.4 (1994.5, 8343.6) |
< 0.001 | 4011.9 (1525.7, 7762.8) |
< 0.001 | 2459.3 (914.4, 4751.4) |
< 0.001 | 70.4 (45.0, 92.8) |
< 0.001 | 676.5 (227.9, 1711.5) |
< 0.001 | 20.1 (11.0, 33.5) |
< 0.001 | |
| Central | 270.3 (73.2, 619.3) |
3515.8 (1464.7, 7783.2) |
3458.6 (1381.5, 7709.3) |
1800.1 (673.7, 4213.2) |
57.2 (36.0, 75.4) |
898.6 (371.0, 1948.8) |
26.7 (19.4, 36.1) |
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| Western | 177.5 (66.3, 416.7) |
2202.2 (1111.1, 4795.) |
2115.5 (1001.5, 4732.5) |
1070.4 (502.2, 2462.8) |
59.0 (37.5, 78.8) |
313.0 (106.9, 761.5) |
15.1 (10.0, 26.7) |
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| With other cancer | |||||||||||||||
| No | 385.1 (124.1, 1125.6) |
< 0.05 | 3414.7 (1427.8, 6961.5) |
< 0.001 | 3112.9 (1232.7, 6673.7) |
< 0.001 | 1715.3 (632.2, 3845.3) |
< 0.001 | 62.8 (39.5, 83.8) |
0.9113 | 586.2 (207.6, 1487.7) |
< 0.001 | 21.5 (12.5, 33.2) |
< 0.01 | |
| Yes | 494.4 (171.6, 1265.1) |
6127.8 (2721.5, 11366.2) |
6206.1 (2970.8, 11363.5) |
3546.4 (1788.1, 6146.2) |
62.2 (43.8, 81.9) |
1226.1 (492.0, 3160.3) |
24.7 (15.4, 35.7) |
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a
IQR, interquartile range.
b
USD, United States dollar.
c
OOP, out-of-pocket.
d
URRBMI, The Urban Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance.
e
UEBMI, The Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance.