Hospital Patient Direct Costs for Echinococcosis in Kyrgyzstan 2015-2020

3,619 patient records detail additional direct costs for CE and AE diagnoses in Kyrgyz hospitals from 2015 to 2020. The dataset provides financial expenditure data in the local currency, KGS, for these parasitic diseases. It was created by Gulnara Minbaeva and shared under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze cost variation for CE and AE diagnosis forms across different hospitals in the country.
• Model patient expenditure in KGS based on diagnosis type and year of treatment.
• Examine trends in hospital costs for Echinococcosis over the 2015-2020 period.

Strengths

• Contains 3,619 patient records, providing a substantive sample for analysis.
• Covers a six-year time range from 2015 to 2020, enabling longitudinal study.
• Focuses on a specific, high-impact public health issue (Echinococcosis) in Kyrgyzstan.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope and potentially few variables.
• Column names and data structure are unknown, complicating direct analysis without inspection.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single country, restricting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Gulnara Minbaeva via figshare.

Collection Method

Presumably collected from hospital records, but specific methodology is unknown.

Time Range

2015 to 2020.

Freshness

The data covers 2015-2020, but the record was last updated in March 2026, suggesting possible metadata maintenance.

Geography

Hospitals across Kyrgyzstan.