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cord-294452-432t0q7w	Liu, Keh-Sen	The impact of global budgeting in Taiwan on inpatients with unexplained fever	2019-09-13		.txt	text/plain	5466	349	56	This study evaluated the differences in health service utilization, health care expenditures, and quality of care provided to patients with unexplained fever before and after global budget (GB) implementation in Taiwan. [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] Here, we evaluated the differences in health service utilization, health care expenditures, and quality of care among patients with unexplained fever before and after GB system implementation by using NHI Research Database (NHIRD) data. The independent variables evaluated in this study included pre-post GB, age, gender, income state index, Charlson comorbidity index, the three hospital levels, and the six geographic areas in Taiwan. There were significant differences in LOS, diagnostic costs, therapy costs, total costs, 3-day ED revisiting rate, and 14-day readmission rate before and after implementation of the GB system among patients with www.md-journal.com unexplained fever (P = .03, P = .001, P < .001, P = .01, P = .02, P = .04, respectively).	./cache/cord-294452-432t0q7w.txt	./txt/cord-294452-432t0q7w.txt