Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)
- Volume 11 Issue 4
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- Pages.351-359
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- 2013
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- 1738-1916(pISSN)
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The Determinant of the Length of Stay in Hospital for Schizophrenic Patients: Using Data from the In-depth Injury Patient Surveillance System
정신분열병 환자의 재원일수 결정요인: 퇴원손상심층조사 자료를 이용하여
- Received : 2013.03.10
- Accepted : 2013.04.20
- Published : 2013.04.28
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the factors that affect the length of stay in hospital for schizophrenic patients. Of the data from the in-depth injury patient surveillance system, the final subject included 2,239 patients with schizophrenia in their final diagnosis. Using SPSS 18.0, a hierarchical regression analysis was performed by sequentially entering the explanatory variables by setting sociodemographic characteristics, discharge characteristics and hospital characteristics as explanatory variables and the length of stay in hospital as a dependent variable. The findings showed that the sociodemographic characteristics had the highest explanatory power and the explanatory power changed when the explanatory variable of the hospital characteristics was added, as opposed to the discharge characteristics. Male, type-1 medicaid, Chungcheong-do and the number of beds were found to be the factors that mostly affect the length of stay. Since this study used the secondary data, it has a limitation in terms of additional variables that could better explain the length of stay for schizophrenic patients. Nevertheless, it has an implication in that it investigated a large scale of data on a national level. For the effort of reducing the length of stay, it is suggested that an effort should be made at the national level, by focusing more on the hospital characteristics as well as the individual characteristics of patients.
Keywords
Schizophrenia;In-depth Injury Patient Surveillance System;Discharge Summary;Length of Stay;Hierarchial Regression Analysis