Abstract
The dataset contains 1042 records obtained from inpatients at hospitals in the northern region of Vietnam. The survey process lasted 20 months from August 2014 to March 2016, and yielded a comprehensive set of records of inpatients’ financial situations, healthcare, and health insurance information, as well as their perspectives on treatment service in the hospitals. Five articles were published based on the smaller subsets. This data article introduces the full dataset for the first time and suggests a new Bayesian statistics approach for data analysis. The full dataset is expected to contribute new data for health economic researchers and new grounded scientific results for policymakers.
Highlights
The dataset contains 1042 records obtained from inpatients at hospitals in the northern region of Vietnam
This data descriptor article presents a comprehensive dataset on the situations and opinions of
This data descriptor article presents a comprehensive dataset on the situations and opinions of inpatients regarding the cost of treatment at the hospital, and the application of both the frequentist inpatients regarding the cost of treatment at the hospital, and the application of both the frequentist and Bayesian statistics approaches in data analysis
Summary
This paper presents a comprehensive dataset of inpatients’ financial conditions, their demographic information, opinions about treatment, and hospital fees. The survey process was long due to the sensitive nature of the research. The survey team approached and gradually asked the patients and/or patients’ families about sensitive matters related to their financial situation and their attitudes and behaviors regarding the hospital and treatment process, such as bribery or length of stay. Smaller subsets have been derived from the dataset and analyzed to explore health insurance issues [1], health care payments, financial destitution [2,3,4], and satisfaction with healthcare services [5]. The comprehensive information from the dataset and the new method are expected to provide resources for health economic researchers to investigate the healthcare and health insurance services in transitional economies such as Vietnam. In the Data Description section, we explain in detail the coded variables and propose some potential research questions that might be explored using the dataset. The article concludes with the limitations and implications of the dataset
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