Poster Presentation
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This presentation is part of : Poster Presentations I
Evaluation on Utilization of the Healthcare Service in One Urban Area in Korea
Sung-Hee Ahn, RN, PhD, College of Nursing, The Catholic University of korea, Seoul, South Korea and Byung-Wha Lee, RN, PhD, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Learning Objective #1: study evaluation of the utilization of health care service
Learning Objective #2: acquire the information on the classification of utilization characteristics From data warehousing.
This study was to evaluate the utilization of health care service and to provide supportive data for health care policymaking in one urban area in Korea. This study tested the significance of public health service using the database of an university hospital and public health center from Feb. 2000 to Dec. 2004. Data were analyzed by multidimensional analysis and data mining technique. The Results were as follows: 1) Top 10 diseases in the area accounted for 22.4% of total frequency in university hospital, while 59.0% in public health center. 2) There was significant correlation between university hospital and public health center user's insurance type and place of residence: It showed higher use of public health center for free service beneficiaries residing in Seoul than residents in nearby or local area. The medical insurance types for hospital users were more various than those for public health center users. 3) The use of hospital for patients of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia was tended to concentrate in mostly autumn and winter since August 2000, while the cost of using public health center for those patients has been steadily reduced since July 2000. 4) As a result of cluster analysis, there were classified into three homogeneous groups according to the total cost of using public health service, age, and the frequency of use. 5) The association analysis on patients with chronic disease in public health center produced a detailed information on accompanying diseases related to the incidence rate of disease of high frequency due to aging, information on drug abuse and immune disease. The health care policy for local community should be evaluated continuously. And the policy to build an integrated data warehousing by public health indicator system and to enhance the faithfulness of data is required.  

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