Factor Analysis of Medical Expenses of the Hepatitis a Patients in Guangdong

摘要

Nine influence factors for medical expenses of hepatitis A were measured on 115 patients with this disease. Next, factor analysis was performed to identify underlying variables, or factors, that explain the pattern of correlations within a set of observed risk factors. The factor analysis disclosed four factors that explained more than 76% of the variance: drug and examination costs factor, therapeutic and nursing care costs, surgery and medical material costs and diagnostic costs. Also, results of the present study do encourage efforts to explore new methods designated to find more effective way to control medical expense.