Abstract：Objective To explore the main influencing factors of the cost of hospitalized patients with fractures in a hospital, to provide some reference basis for reducing the financial burden of patients, evaluating the rationality of medical expenses, effectively controlling medical expenses, and to lay a solid foundation for paying for single disease and applying DRGS.Methods The inpatient expenses of 2 656 fracture patients in a hospital's statistical medical record management system were collected as samples from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2016. SPSS 22.0 software was used for data entry, principal component and factor analysis, and various inpatient expenses were statistically analyzed and studied.Results Among the hospitalization expenses in this survey, western medicine expenses accounted for 18.74%, Chinese medicine expenses 5.01%, comprehensive medical service fees 22.50%, diagnosis expenses 19.87%, treatment expenses 12.84%, rehabilitation expenses 1.06%, traditional Chinese medicine treatment expenses 1.22%, blood and blood product expenses 1.25%, and consumable expenses 17.50%. There were three common factors affecting the hospitalization cost of fracture patients, which were named as diagnosis cost factor, treatment cost factor and traditional Chinese medicine cost factor.Conclusion To control the costs of diagnosis and treatment and traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation is the key to controlling the medical cost of fracture patients.
