• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.3349-3357
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to verify the effectiveness of an integrated nursing curriculum based on simulation with problem-based learning (PBL) by comparing the clinical competence and the self-confidence of newly graduated nurses. A non-equivalent control group post-test design was employed to compare the clinical competence and the self-confidence in the clinical performance examination using standardized patients between 39 newly graduated nurses with the traditional nursing curriculum and 35 with the integrated nursing curriculum. Data analysis involved Fisher's exact test, t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and ANCOVA with the SPSS 19.0 program. The total clinical competence mean score graded by the standardized patients was not different between the two groups. However, the total clinical competence mean score graded by faculty was significantly higher in the integrated curriculum group than the traditional curriculum group. The mean self-confidence score was significantly higher in the integrated curriculum group than the traditional curriculum group. Active teaching-learning strategies including simulation or PBL in the nursing curriculum could benefit for nursing students by inducing favorable clinical competence and self-confidence. Longitudinal follow-up studies based on observation are needed to explore the patient outcomes in addition to the learner outcomes in clinical settings.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.67-73
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• 2016

Now, Korean health technology and health service is proud to be world class one at a level of not falling behind anywhere in the world. However, this health service has been provided, centering on hospital or medical staff, not patient so far. And there is a tendency to gradually change into patient-centered health service. According to the results of survey performed by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, it was reported that, as of 2016, 30% or more of inpatients were not sufficiently given information relating to hospital rounds, and in particular, 50% or more of inpatients in their twenties to thirties expressed discontent, and approximately 17% of inpatients in their seventies and beyond expressed discontent. In the light of these data, especially inpatients in their twenties to thirties want information relating to hospital rounds and the like. And taking into consideration that they are characterized by being accustomed to using a smartphone, it is intended to design and implement a hospital rounds information smartphone application. Now, in some of medium and large hospitals, information about hospital is provided through smartphone application. However, the main purpose is hospital information or outpatient's appointment to see a doctor and so on. Even in case of providing information about hospital rounds, only information about approximate time to make rounds is provided. This paper is intended to design and implement hospital rounds information system making it possible to check their turn when rounds are made by utilizing NFC function in smart phone.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.101-106
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• 2007

Recently, Ubiquitous innovation is being promoted so that they can support the uHealthcare provide management to human's health. It is thus necessary to conduct such research on the medical care environment where there is a high demand for utilization of status information. In the current situation, there is a lack of research on measures of security processing and monitoring patient status information produced from rapid growth of infra within Medical environment. This study suggests a solution of using RFID to gather patient information such as inpatient information, location of treatment room, progress of patient, humidity, temperature, and diagnostic status, after which the information are protect and processed using security level method.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.27-38
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to ascertain new policies fo the development of the Korean Hospital Accreditation Program (HAP) by comparing and reviewing the domestic HAP of Korea, the U. S. and Australia as well as the International Accreditation Program of the International Society for Health Care Quality. The results of this study are as follows. First, it is necessary to improve the standards of the HAP such as 'patient and community centered standards' and 'staffing related standards'. Second, it is necessary to strengthen patient safety through the HAP. Third, the linkage among the HAP, clinical indicators and patient experience evaluation should be strengthened. Fourth, the competencies of surveyors should be improved. Fifth, the HAP of small and medium hospitals also needs to be vitalized. Sixth, it is necessary to improve the disclosure of the healthcare quality evaluation results. The findings of this study can be used as a basis to improve the Korean HAP.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.294-300
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of yoga exercise on balance ability and gait velocity in stroke patients. Subjects were categorized in to a control group and yoga program group with 9 for each group. Yoga program was conducted for 60minute for 8weeks, three times a week. For the purposes, the study measured Stability Index(SI, postural sway) and Weight Distribution Index(WDI) using Tetrax, Functional Reach Test(FRT), Dynamic Gait index(DGI) and 10 meter walking test. At pre- and post-exercise after appling the yoga exercise, the data was analyzed. Yoga exercise group's SI and WDI were decreased, FRT and DGI were increased in comparison with control group. But 10 meter walking test was no significance. It suggests that the yoga exercise could promote recovery from balance disorder after stroke.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.39-39
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• 2003

목 적 : 병소가 바깥쪽 측면(far-lateral targets)에 위치한 경우 감마나이프 방사선 시술이 어렵다. 저자들은 새로운 식을 도입하여 치료 좌표계를 변환시키고 환자를 측면으로 눕혀 시술이 가능함을 보고하고자 한다. 대상 : 통상적으로 병소 위치가 X축 좌표 51.5mm-148.5mm 범위 내에 있는 경우, 감마나이프는 반듯이 누운 자세에서 시술을 한다. 그러나 병소가 바깥쪽 측면에 위치한 경우(51.5mm-148.5mm 범위를 벗어난 경우) 환자는 측면으로 굽혀진 상태에서만 시술이 가능하며 이때 환자 머리에 고정한 정위기구의 전면부분은 일직선 타입이어야 한다. 환자의 치료 자세가 90도 만큼 회전된 상태이므로 X축과 Y축이 서로 치환된다. 새로운 좌표계는 감마플랜에서 계산된 방사선 조사량의 각각 좌표계들이 새로운 식에 대입하여 얻어진다. 새로운 X축 좌표는 43mm 만큼 증가하였으며 범위는 30mm-170mm 이였다. 결과 : 환자를 측면으로 눕혀서 바깥쪽 측면 병소를 시술하는 방법은 방사선 조사 중심 위치의 정확도에 영향을 미치지 않았다. 새로운 X축과 Y축 좌표계는 새로운 식으로 쉽게 치환 변환된다. 결론 : 측면으로 누워서 시술하는 방법은 X축 좌표 범위를 증가시킬 수 있었으며 감마나이프 장비에서 X축의 이축 편위 (trunnion excursion) 한계 때문에 시술을 할 수 없는 경우의 수를 줄일 수 있었다. 이 방법은 바깥쪽 측면에 위치한 병소 시술에 매우 요긴하게 사용되며 특히 여러 개의 병변을 갖고 있는 전이성 뇌종양 질환에 유용하게 사용될 수 있는 방법으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.248-254
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• 2003

According to the analysis of the patient transport in the fire disaster occuring at Taegu Subway Jungangro Station February 18th, 2003, authors concluded as follows. Patients were transported mainly to medical institutes which were larger and that had shorter distance. Because of non-emergenct patient's transport to larger and nearer institutes, some critical patients should be transported to more distant institutes. Dead patients before arrival were transported relatively evenly. An adequate transport according to adequate triage should be performed in the future. Early mitigation and response, correlation with the method of transport, regional guide line of disaster transport and correlation between disaster information and emergency medical information should be corrected and need research in the future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.913-916
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• 2006

의료시스템은 모든 것이 병원 네트워크를 중심으로 의료 서비스가 제공되어 진다. 하지만 자연재해, 천재지변과 같은 갑작스런 환자 발생으로 인한 응급 이동 사항, 혹은 진료자의 외진 및 환자 방문시에는 일반 데스크탑 PC에서 이루어지는 상태의 의료 서비스가 아닌 휴대하기 간편하고 언제 어디서나 의료서비스를 받을 수 있는 Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)와 같은 휴대용 기기에서의 의료시스템이 필요하다. PDA는 휴대가 용이하며 유선 네트워크 시스템에 구애받지 않는 무선 모바일 장비로서 무선 통신이 가능한 곳이라면 언제 어디서라도 환자에 대한 의료 정보를 조회할 수 있다. 또한 PDA의 통신 기술로서 병원과의 실시간 통신이 가능하여 응급 환자에 대해 빠른 진료를 제공 할 수 있다. 이와 더불어 임베디드기기 프로세서의 발달로 인하여 연산처리 기술도 많은 향상을 가져왔고 이로 인하여 기존의 PDA에서의 문제였던 DICOM영상의 조회 및 처리속도에도 많은 향상을 가져왔다. 이에 본 연구에서는 의료영상 표준인 DICOM표준을 따르며 이동성이라는 장점을 통하여 언제 어디서나 손쉽게 진료자가 환자의 의료정보 및 의료 영상을 조회할 수 있도록 하는 PDA용 모바일 의료영상 조회 시스템을 PXA255 기반의 Embedded Linux 상에서 QT/C++을 사용하여 구현하였다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.301-305
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• 2001

Purpose : This study was peformed for the evaluation of the feasibility and toxicity of hypofractionated radiation therapy for early glottic cancer Methods and Materials : From February 1999 to February 2000, 20 patients with Histologically confirmed Stage I, II glottic cancer were enrolled into this study. There were 18 males and 2 females, the median age of the patients was 59 years. The distribution of stage distribution was as fellows; T1aN0-16 patients, T1bN0-1 patient, T2N0-3 patients. Eighteen patients underwent laryngomicroscopic biopsy only, and two patients underwent laser cordectomy. All patients received radical radiation therapy (2.5 Gy per fraction, 24 fractions, total 60 Gy). Median duration of treatment was 36 days (range $31\~45\;days$). Results : Radiation therapy were well tolerated. Most common acute reactions were odynophagia and hoarseness, and these reactions resolved after radiation therapy. There were one case of RTOG grade 3 odynophagia $(5\%)$, six cases of grade 3 hoarseness $(30\%)$. Response of radiation therapy was evaluated one month after completion of treatment. All patients revealed complete response. During follow up, total three cases of treatment failure were detected. two cases were local recurrence in 10 and 13 months of radiation therapy and one case was local recurrence and distant metastasis in 2 months of radiation therapy. Conclusion : This hypofractionated radiation therapy schedule was feasible and effective for control of early glottic cancer But longer follow up time would be required to assess the long-term disease control and the late complication by shortening radiation therapy duration.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.314-323
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• 2013

This study analyzed the relationship between the level of hospital caseloads and length of stay for the delivery patients. The differences of hospital caseloads were measured by the Internal Herfindahl Index, which measured the concentration of delivery patient in a hospital. And the structure variables of hospitals such as the number of bed, the number of treatment, and the number of doctors and nurses per 100 beds were included as control variables. And average length of stay of delivery patients was used as the dependent variable. Concentration status of delivery patients was measured in two models: (1) first model represents the concentration level of delivery patient in all hospital patients, (2) second model represents the concentration level of delivery patient in all obstetrics and gynecology patients. In regression analysis, patient concentration index was not statistically significant in explaining the variation of average length of stay in two models. But the number of delivery patients and number of beds were statistically significant. The number of delivery patient variable showed negative regression coefficient with average length of stay and the number of beds showed positive coefficient with average length of stay. This study result indicated that the volume of delivery patients in a hospital will play a significant role in reducing the length of stay of delivery patients. Patient volume could contribute in improving the efficiency of patient care in a hospital.