Development of unit cost for the health services offered at King FAHD Central hospital Jazan, Saudi Arabia
Background: Efficiency remains one of the most important drivers of decision making in health care system. Fund allocators need to receive structured information about the cost healthcare services from hospitals for better decisions related to resource allocation and budgeting. The objective of the...
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my.unimas.ir.368552021-12-01T08:04:36Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36855/ Development of unit cost for the health services offered at King FAHD Central hospital Jazan, Saudi Arabia Khalid, Ghilan Asim, Mehmood Zafar, Ahmed Ahmed, Nahari Mohammed J., Almalki Abdulrahman M., Jabour Fahad, khan RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Background: Efficiency remains one of the most important drivers of decision making in health care system. Fund allocators need to receive structured information about the cost healthcare services from hospitals for better decisions related to resource allocation and budgeting. The objective of the study was to estimate the unit cost for health services offered to inpatients in King Fahd Central hospital (KFCH) Jazan during the financial year 2018. Methods: We applied a retrospective approach using a top-down costing method to estimate the cost of health care services. Clinical and Administrative departments divided into cost centres, and the unit cost was calculated by dividing the total cost of final care cost centres into the total number of patients discharged in one year. The average cost of inpatient services was calculated based on the average cost of each ward and the number of patients treated. Results: The average cost per patient stayed in KFCH was SAR 19,034, with the highest cost of SAR 108,561 for patients in the Orthopedic ward. The average cost of the patient in the Surgery ward, Plastic surgery, Neurosurgery, Medical ward, Pediatric ward and Gynecology ward was SAR 33,033, SAR 29,425, SAR 23,444, SAR 20,450, SAR 9579 and SAR 8636 respectively. Conclusion: This study provides necessary information about the cost of health care services in a tertiary care setting. This information can be used as a primary tool and reference for further studies in other regions of the country. Hence, this data can help to provide a better understanding of tertiary hospital costing in the region to achieve the privatization objective. Science Direct 2021-02-13 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36855/1/health1.pdf Khalid, Ghilan and Asim, Mehmood and Zafar, Ahmed and Ahmed, Nahari and Mohammed J., Almalki and Abdulrahman M., Jabour and Fahad, khan (2021) Development of unit cost for the health services offered at King FAHD Central hospital Jazan, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 28 (1). pp. 643-650. ISSN 1319-562X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X2030543X https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.10.055 |
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Background: Efficiency remains one of the most important drivers of decision making in health care system. Fund allocators need to receive structured information about the cost healthcare services from hospitals for better decisions related to resource allocation and budgeting. The objective of the study was to
estimate the unit cost for health services offered to inpatients in King Fahd Central hospital (KFCH) Jazan
during the financial year 2018.
Methods: We applied a retrospective approach using a top-down costing method to estimate the cost of health care services. Clinical and Administrative departments divided into cost centres, and the unit cost was calculated by dividing the total cost of final care cost centres into the total number of patients discharged in one year. The average cost of inpatient services was calculated based on the average cost of each ward and the number of patients treated.
Results: The average cost per patient stayed in KFCH was SAR 19,034, with the highest cost of SAR 108,561 for patients in the Orthopedic ward. The average cost of the patient in the Surgery ward, Plastic surgery, Neurosurgery, Medical ward, Pediatric ward and Gynecology ward was SAR 33,033,
SAR 29,425, SAR 23,444, SAR 20,450, SAR 9579 and SAR 8636 respectively.
Conclusion: This study provides necessary information about the cost of health care services in a tertiary care setting. This information can be used as a primary tool and reference for further studies in other regions of the country. Hence, this data can help to provide a better understanding of tertiary hospital costing in the region to achieve the privatization objective. |
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