AU - Vatankhah, S AU - Abolghasem Gorji, H AU - Khosravizadeh, O AU - Mohseni, M TI - The Effect of Payment Method of Treatment Cost on Patient Length of Stay in Educational and Healthcare Centers in Qazvin PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - jha JN - jha VO - 17 VI - 57 IP - 57 4099 - http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1542-en.html 4100 - http://jha.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1542-en.pdf SO - jha 57 AB  - Introduction: While hospital care has always been one of the basic requirements, Payment Method of treatment is an important factor to create equity in utilization of care. On the other hand, length of stay is one of the key indicators in hospital performance showing the efficiency of hospital care in resource consumption. The purpose of this study was to survey the effect of Payment Method of Treatment cost on the patient length of stay in educational and health centers in Qazvin in 2014. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study, 640 samples were randomly selected from among inpatients' documents at Qazvin’s selected educational and health centers. Data entry form was used for data gathering and Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann Whitney and Kruskal- Wallis tests were used for data analysis. Results: The mean and standard deviation for inpatient length of stay were 5.454 and 6.143, respectively. Demographic factors such as age, occupation, marital status affected the length of stay (P CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - jha PG - 68 PT - Research YR - 2014