• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.763-765
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• 2003

환자 진료 의뢰 과정은1차 진료기관에서 3차 진료기관으로 환자 진료를 의뢰하고 3차 진료기관에서 검사, 처방, 입원 등의 진료행위를 하고 환자가 3차 병원을 나갈 때 퇴원요약정보를 1차 진료기관으로 다시 보내준다. 이러한 퇴원 요약 시스템은 병원간 환자 정보의 공유를 통해서 환자의 회복과 질 높은 의료 서비스를 제공할 수 있게 한다. 방사선과 정보가 다른 퇴원 요약 정보와 함께 제공된다면 지속적이고 일관된 의료 서비스의 제공에 도움이 된다. 또한 방사선과의 경우 3차 진료기관에서 이미지를 획득할 수 없는 경우, 이미지 획득 장비를 갖춘 1차 진료기관으로 진료 의뢰를 해야 하는 특수한 상황도 발생하는데, 이를 역진료의뢰라고 한다. 우리는 이러한 방사선과의 특성을 함께 고려한 방사선과 정보를 지원하는 퇴원정보요약시스템을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.951-954
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• 2003

1 2차 진료 기관과 3차 진료 기관 사이에서 환자의 진료 정보 공유를 위하여. 많은 병원에서 Referral 시스템을 구성하여 사용하고 있다. 이종 병원 시스템간의 진료 정보 공유를 위한 표준화 작업이 이루어지고 있지만, 현재 많은 병원 정보 시스템에서 자신만의 데이터 표현 양식을 이용하고 있어 실제로 정보의 공유는 이루어지고 있지 않고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방법으로 XML 스키마 매핑 에이전트를 소개하고, 진료 정보 공유를 위한 Referral 시스템 모델을 제시한다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.277-282
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• 1999

Background: For effective and systematic management of patients in the emergency department(ED), the data on patient arrival and status in ED of Yeungnam University Hospital were evaluated. Materials and Methods: During the seven days from Apr. 1 to Apr. 7, 1998, the general patient information such as onset time and place, factors associated with transportation, causes of admission, cared department and patient disposition were recorded. Results: Total of 464 patients visited the ED during the seven days, and the mean number of patients per day was 66.3. Male to female ratio was 1:0.71. Daily staying patients were 17.3, and 83.6 patients were cared totally each day. The methods of transportation and distribution of patients according to region and event were as follows: visit by walk(57.3%). transportation by car(58.0%), place of event in residence(85.3%), regional distribution in Taegu(81.5%), and direct visit(97.4%). Cause of admission due to diseases was 74.6%. The percentages of departments which cared the patients were internal medicine 26.6%, pediatrics 16.8%, orthopedics 8.6%, neurology 8.2%, neurosurgery 7.8% and other department including emergency medicine 8.2%, respectively. Patient dispositions were admission 38.4%, discharge 61.0% and death on arrival(DOA) 0.6%, but referred patient-to-another-hospital was zero. Conclusion: Improvements in several aspects of ED's caring system such as "fast tracking" system and reinforcement of disease and trauma caring system, would be helpful for effective management of emergency patients.

• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.84-91
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• 2018

Purpose: This study aims to investigate treatment of cancer patients at a secondary hospital. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed with electronic medical records of cancer patients admitted to a secondary hospital from January 1, 2009 through September 31, 2017. Results: A total of 223 patients were studied. Sixty-nine patients were hospitalized for supportive care after receiving a surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy at a tertiary hospital, 58 patients for other supportive care, 53 patients for symptom control, 16 patients with a decision not to take active cancer treatment, and 27 patients for treatment of cancer that was diagnosed during their hospital stay. Among 75 patients who were discharged to other institutions, 50 were transferred to tertiary hospitals, 10 to long-term care hospitals, eight to hospice hospitals, four to nursing homes and two to secondary hospitals. Comorbidities were found in 120 patients (53.8%). For patients who consulted with more than one department, more consultations were for non-cancer diseases than cancer. Seventy-three patients had a do-not-resuscitate order. Conclusion: For treatment of cancer patients, it is needed to establish a cooperation system among medical institutions and provide comprehensive management including treatment of comorbidities.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.26 no.3 s.43
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• pp.457-468
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• 1993

This study was conducted to investigate the repeat test rate for diagnosis at a tertiary hospital for the outpatients who were referred themselves to the hospital by the clinics and other medical facilities. The study population consisted of 498 patients who visited outpatient department of internal medicine, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery in the hospital between March 16 and April 11, 1992. This study was surveyed by the questionnaire about the tests for diagnosis at first level medical facilities, and then, was investigated by the medical record about the tests for diagnosis at a tertiary hospital. The proportion of test among the patients who utilized the first level medical facilities was 20.9% for the X-ray test, 10.6% for the urinalysis, 9.0% for the electrocardiogram, 3.4% for the computer tomogram and 6.4% for the ultrasonogram. At the tertiary hospital, the X-ray test was 45.2%, the liver function test was 24.1%, the urinalysis was 19.1%, and the electrocardiogram was 15.7%. The proportion of patients who possessed results of test for diagnosis at the first level medical facilities was 76.5% for the computer tomogram, and 31.3% for the ultrasonogram. As the repeat test rate between the first level medical facilities and the tertiary hospital, the thyroid function test was the first rank as 71.4%, the second rank was the routine CBC as 67.9%, and the third rank was the X-ray test as 64.4%. But among the patients that brought the result for tests at the first level medical facilities, the repeat test rate was as follow : the routine CBC was 75.0%, the liver function test was 72.1%, and the computer tomogram was 15.4%.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.53-61
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• 2003

This system Will allow primary and secondary treatment institutions poorly equipped with medical equipment to use Internet and book their patients' medical checkups with tertiary hospitals equipped with remote medical information system. This research aims to make theoretical studies on the remote medical service information sharing system and discuss its utility and factors to be considered for spreading the system. To efficiently push ahead with the remote medical service information sharing system, we need to be open-minded in sharing medical service information, establish comprehensive pursuit system, introduce incentive aimed at activating the information system, have close coordination with the central government, flexibly respond to changing technologies, and offer publicity and education.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.49-55
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• 2015

Current medical delivery system in Korea has been distinguished into three types; primary medical facilities, secondary facilities, and tertiary facilities since 1989. This system prevents the waste of medical resources along with the maintenance of balance according to the medical treatment subjects. However, it is inevitable that the imbalance of the medical services among regions has been generated due to the concentration of the medical facilities on large cities. In this regard, this study attempted to evaluate the quality of the primary medical services, emphasizing accessibility and convenience targeting Jinju city, a small and medium-sized city, based on the distribution characteristics of the space. The study results show that cohesion index about the spatial distribution of the primary care facilities was 0~0.25. It conducted a correlation analysis between the location of the hospitals and users, based on the study results. Finally, it is demonstrated the correlation between the location of the hospitals and users tended to be low, while, the cohesion of the Oriental medicine clinics was high in other treatment subjects, and the accessibility to the Oriental medicine clinics was the highest because most Oriental medicine clinics were distributed to the places where users were many. However, on account that the locations of the medical facilities and users were varied in other treatment subjects except for the Oriental medicine clinics, problems were generated in terms of the accessibility. Therefore, it is judged that the preparation of the measures to improve the selection of lots in consideration of users, who use the primary medical services, is required.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.311-316
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• 2021

The number of patients referred to pain clinic is increasing. The purpose of this study was to describe and understand characteristic of patients referred to the tertiary pain clinic. This study was conducted on 587 patients who had been referred to pain clinics at three university hospitals in the Jeollabuk-do region from January 2011 to December 2015. The data was retrospectively collected on a record sheet prepared in the clinic. we analyzed these patients according to their age, sex, chief complaint, pain location, coexisting disease, referring department, referral causes. There were various medical problems addressed by a pain clinic consultation. It is reasonable to develop standardized guidelines for pain management. To do so, it is necessary to identify the characteristics of the patients. A study with more patients in another area will be helpful in characterizing the patients referred to the pain clinic in Korea.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.27 no.2 s.46
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• pp.366-376
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• 1994

Patients' evaluation of hospital care is one of the most important aspects of quality assessment. Survey allows patients to judge sujectively the events that occur during their hospital visit if performed properly. This study describes the result of a research effort to develop outpatient questionnaire that has sufficient validity and reliability to be used to measure patients' perception of satisfaction in Korea and to investigate influencing factors on patients' satisfaction. Self-administered questionnaire was developed for outpatient and the survey was conducted covering 827 outpatients in a tertiary hospital. It was confirmed by factor analysis that patients evaluate several components of ambulatory care distinctly ; hospital environment, administration and ancillary services, and medical care. We found strong evidence of construct validity and internal consistency for the above three dimensions of hospital process. On the contrary, reliability of overall outcome measures was low. It suggests that three items concerning overall outcome measures have some different meanings in patients' perception. Using logistic regression analysis it was found that previous health status, cost evaluation, and improvement in health status have significant influences on the level of patients' overall satisfaction and that patient's sex, experience of previous visit, expectation for improvement, cost evaluation, and improvement in health status are strongly related with intention to recommend hospital. In spite of some limitations the results of this study can be used helpfully as baseline informations for developing self-administered questionnaire and for exploring the influencing factors on patients' satisfaction. Further comprehensive research efforts should be made on the measurement of ambulatory patients' satisfaction and its related factors in current Korean situation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.437-441
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• 2014

몽골은 현재 국민에 대한 의료 평등이 잘 되어있지 않다. 몽골의 의료 기관은 1,2,3차 기관 세 종류가 있는데 1차는 기본기관, 2,3차는 전문기관이다. 하지만 전문기관은 도시에만 존재하기 때문에 도시권 외 주민들은 전문기관의 의료 서비스를 받기가 매우 힘들다. 게다가 해외 의료 기관들도 모두 수도 울란바토르에 집중되어 있기 때문에 그 격차는 더욱 더 심해진다. 이러한 의료 불평등을 조금이라도 해소하기 위하여 제안하는 것이 'M-LIMS' 이다. 'M-LIMS'는 기본적으로 이동식 병원이다. 'M-LIMS'에서는 환자 진료를 위한 몇 가지 기능을 제공한다. 첫 번째로 환자 관리를 위한 환자용 차트 작성이다. 두 번째로는 환자들의 진료 상황을 볼 수 있는 리스트 검색 및 공유 기능이다. 세 번째로는 환자들의 데이터들을 이용하여 규격화 된 차트로 변환하는 차트 작성 기능이다. 그리고 네 번째로는 차량 내 의사뿐이 아닌 다른 의사도 진료에 참여 할 수 있는 원격 진료 기능이다. 이렇듯 'M-LIMS'의 기능을 이용한다면 몽골의 의료 평등에 한 걸음 더 기여를 할 수 있지 않을까 기대를 한다.