Referral Patterns For Patients Treated With Warfarin Thromboprophylaxis After Hip And Knee Replacement Surgery

Abstract

A201the utilization of that services in Hungary. METHODS: Data were derived from the nationwide administrative dataset of the National Health Insurance Fund Administration (OEP), the only health care financing agency in Hungary. The utilization of home care (nursing) services was measured by the number of service provider, number of patients and the number of visits. We analzed the year 2011. RESULTS: The number of home care (nursing) service providers was 333. 80.8% of them was private for-profit, while 10.9% private nonprofit organization. Altogether 51,000 patients was visited by home care providers (50 patients/10,000 population). The total annual number of visits was 1,190,000 (1193 visits/10,000 population). The average health insurance reimbursement of 1 visit was 2788 Hungarian Forint (HUF) (10.0 EUR), while the average reim-bursement of 1 patient was 65,345 HUF (234.0 EUR). CONCLUSIONS: We found that only 0.5 % of the Hungarian population underwent home care (nursing) services in 2011. Further development of home care services should be encouraged in order to reduce unnecessary hospital care.