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标题：Comparative treatment costs for patients with acute myocardial infarction between Finland and Norway
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作者：Tor Iversen ; Unto Häkkinen
期刊名称：Nordic Journal of Health Economics
印刷版ISSN：1892-9710
出版年度：2019
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：58-79
DOI：10.5617/njhe.5543
出版社：University of Oslo
摘要：Previous studies on patients with acute myocardial infarction have found that Finland has higher hospital costs per patient than Norway for the first hospital episode (HEP), while Norway has higher costs during the first year after the initial admission. In this paper, we analyze the variation in treatment costs between Finland and Norway in detail by introducing novel explanatory variables. We find that the distance from the patient’s home to the hospital increases hospital costs at a declining scale and one-year hospital costs are higher for low-income patients. The higher one-year hospital costs in Norway are accompanied by a comparatively lower mortality rate. While for HEP, the introduction of new explanatory variables does not explain the greater costs in Finland compared with Norway, for one-year costs, the additional variables explain the greater one-year costs in Norway compared to Finland. Published: Online January 2019. In print January 2019.
关键词：costs; estimation; international comparison; register; acute myocardial infarction
其他关键词：costs; estimation; international comparison; register; acute myocardial infarction