Estimation of Direct Financial Burden of Unnecessary Admission and Stay in the Internal and Surgical Wards of Teaching Hospitals in Yazd City:2021

All managers should strive to make the most of the available facilities to avoid wasting resources. This study aimed to estimate the direct financial burden of unnecessary admissions and stay days in the Internal and Surgical Wards of Teaching Hospitals in Yazd City. A total of 272 cases were selected using the stratified sampling method in 2021, and each hospital was considered as a statistical classctedcity:2021. Protocol Evaluation Appropriateness was used to collect the data. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine the impact of demographic variables on the type of admission and also on the type of stay day through SPSS22. The results showed that 5.5% of admissions and 19.4% of stay day were deemed unnecessary, and the chance of unnecessary admission in the surgical ward compared to the internal ward was about 75% (p = 0.037, OR 0.25) and in patients with basic insurance was about 74% lower than those without basic insurance. The cost of unnecessary admission and stay was estimated at 310.294.000 IR Rials. There is a need to establish interaction between the health insurance organization and other basic insurance organizations with managers and officials of hospitals and monitor the cases, so that admissions and inappropriate hospital days are reduced.