ฐานข้อมูลวิจัยด้านสุขภาพจิตและจิตเวช

ผู้วิจัย/Authors: บุปผวรรณ พัวพันธ์ประเสริฐ, ศุภสิทธิ์ พรรณนารุโณทัย.

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Thai Psychiatric Inpatient Care cost.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Bulletin of Suanprung. Vol. 24, No. 3, September-December 2008, page 60.

รายละเอียด / Details:

In Thailand, there are a few studies in relation to Thai's psychiatric health care with their own different conceptual frameworks and methods, which all used traditional method that cannot know activities care costs. Due to lack of care costinformation, many problems and limitations have been created in budget allocation of mental health care and service quality has not improved. Therefore, activity-based costing method that is believed to be more accuracy than traditional method is the choice. This study aims to study care cost of psychiatric inpatient by traditional method and activity-based costing method. It was a cross sectional and prospective study in view of service provider that was carried out in October 2004 until September 2005. The subjects were draw from the Suan Prung Psychiatric Hospitals under the Thai Mental Health Department. The total cost in data collection time 4 months was 56,944,921 Thai bath. The ratio of labour cost: material cost: capital cost was equal 5: 3: 1. While the ratio of non-revenue producing cost center: revenue producing cost center: inpatient service: outpatient service: other service was 7: 5: 11: 1: 3. An average full cost was 697 Thai bath per day or 18,071 Thai bath per case. The highest full cost was found in schizophrenia (20,766 Thai bath per case), followed by drug intoxication and withdrawal (19,137 Thai bath per case), mental retardation (17,557 Thai bath per case), eating and obsessive/compulsive (16,559 Thai bath per case), and infectious and parasitic disease (16,245 Thai bath per case), respectively. The results from this study give valuable information for design and planning mental health care.

Keywords: care cost, inpatient, psychiatric

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: โรงพยาบาลสวนปรุง

Code: 201000075

ISSN/ISBN: -

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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