@inproceedings{5ede1098658444f59f38deabb18b3ba4,
title = "Time and economic burden of comorbidities among COPD inpatients",
abstract = "Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major public health problem and usually associated with various comorbidities. Base on electronic health records of inpatients, aged 40 to 80 years old, from 169 hospitals located across China between 2013 and 2014, this paper summarized 27 comorbidities of COPD and compared the time and economic burdens of COPD patients to non-COPD patients. The 17 comorbidities included in Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and 10 additional comorbidities were employed while odds ratios were considered to compare differences. The results disclosed that COPD patients had higher comorbidity burdens than non-COPD patients did. Moreover, COPD patients had 6.40% more hospital stay and 12.96% lower medical cost. Seven morbidities had positive correlations with hospital stay and medical cost, which indicated that COPD patients should be paid more attention to those comprehensive comorbidities when making therapeutic plans.",
keywords = "CCI, COPD, Comorbidity, Economic burden, Inpatient, Population study, Time burden",
author = "Jiaqi Liu and James Ma and Jiaojiao Wang and Daniel Zeng and Hongbin Song and Ligui Wang and Zhidong Cao",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-29175-8_17",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319291741",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "187--195",
editor = "Hsinchun Chen and Zeng, {Daniel Dajun} and Xiaolong Zheng and Leischow, {Scott J.}",
booktitle = "Smart Health - International Conference, ICSH 2015, Revised Selected Papers",
note = "International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2015 ; Conference date: 17-11-2015 Through 18-11-2015",
}