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Impact of Competition on Physician Behavior Clinics - Focused on Acute Otitis Media in Children -

의원급 의료기관 간 경쟁이 진료행태에 미치는 영향 - 유·소아 급성중이염 중심 융합연구 -

  • Lee, Chae-Kyung (Dep. of Public Health, Gachon University Graduate School) ;
  • Suh, Won-Sik (Dep. of Healthcare Management, Gachon University)
  • 이채경 (가천대학교 일반대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 서원식 (가천대학교 헬스케어 경영학과)
  • Received : 2017.11.13
  • Accepted : 2018.01.20
  • Published : 2018.01.28

Abstract

This study analyzes the impact of competitions clinics on the total treatment cost and anti-biotics prescription rate. The result of implementing the basic statistics, correlations, and regression analysis by facilitating the evaluation data by Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service in 2015 for acute otitis media in children is shown as follows. First, there is a significant difference for each si-gun-gu for the competition index between total treatment cost and clinics, but there is almost no significant difference for the anti-biotics prescription rate. Second, competition in clinics has statistically important impact on the total examination cost And, third, competition in clinics has no statistically important impact on the anti-biotics prescription rate. There is a need for additional studies on re-examination rate, treatment cost per visit and so forth in order to clarify other factors of competition for medical institutions impacting on the physician behavior in the future studies.

이 연구는 의원 간 경쟁이 급성중이염 총진료비와 항생제처방률에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 건강보험심사평가원 2015년 유 소아 급성중이염 평가 자료를 활용하여 기초통계, 상관분석, 회귀분석을 실시한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 총진료비와 의원 간 경쟁지수는 시 구 군별 큰 격차를 보였으나, 항생체처방룰은 차이를 보이지 않았다. 둘째, 의원 간 경쟁은 총진료비에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미쳤다. 셋째, 의원 간 경쟁은 항생제처방률에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치지 않았다. 향후 연구에서 의료기관 경쟁정도가 진료행태에 미치는 다른 요인을 규명하기 위해 재진비율, 방문당 진료비 등에 대한 추가 연구가 필요하다.

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