• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.446-452
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• 2014

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the exposure status of formaldehyde(FA) among the nurses in ambulatory care departments of university hospital. Methods: Two university hospitals were surveyed. The FA concentration in air were measured to target 62 nurses in 8 ambulatory care departments(89 samples). Air sampling and analysis of FA were carried out according to the OSHA Method ID-205. The survey was conducted with questionnaire asking about how to control FA and whether the nurses use the formaldehyde protectors or not. Results: FA was detected in all samples. The maximum concentration of FA was 0.258 ppm and the geometric mean was 0.023 ppm. There was no sample that exceeded any of exposure standards by OSHA-TWA whereas there were 54 samples(60.7%) that exceeded the standards by NOISH-TWA. Among 62 nurses handling FA, 13 nurses(21.0%) used the protective gloves while nobody used a gas mask. It was assessed that any of 8 common ambulatory care departments did not use a safety cabinet for FA in which local exhaust ventilation was fixed. Conclusions: Nurses in ambulatory care departments were exposed to FA. Therefore, the environment management of a workplace, the health management of a nurses, FA handling education and installing a FA cabinet with a local exhaust ventilation were needed because FA as a carcinogen was able to cause any cancer to a human body if it was emitted in air for long time.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.51-62
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• 2019

Purpose: This study aims to examine spatial characteristics of ambulatory care department Chronologically through case studies; and to consider the social implication of these spatial changes. Methods: In this study, a total of eight ambulatory care departments, one or two for each period, were selected in order to analyze the spatial characteristics. Results: First, since the 1990s, the outpatient department of the US has been changed into a patient-centered space by providing high quality outpatient medical services through individual exam room planning. Second, the exam room has been changed from open/semi-open/group exam room to individual exam room since 1990, and the trend is shifting from the cluster type to the modular type consisting of universal exam rooms in order to achieve the flexibility of exam room. Third, the diagnostic/testing area has been deployed to the ambulatory clinic to enable 'one-stop shopping' for patients-centered care since 1990s, however, it has been disappearing since 2000 due to Reduce medical expenses. Fourth, the Central Nursing Station type first appeared in the outpatient department In the 2000s, followed by the type of decentralized nursing station type since 2010s. And fifth, the area of medical support has been placing to be concentrated on one place due to the Lean Design strategy since 2010. Implications: In the future, it is expected that Korea will be more focused on efficiency, visual control, and flexibility in the planning of the ambulatory care department as in the case of the United States.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.253-258
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• 2020

본 연구는 외래의료 민감 질환(Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions, ACSCs)으로 응급실에 내원한 환자들의 특성을 연령(성인 19-64세, 노인 65세 이상)으로 구분하여 그 차이를 비교 분석하였다. 2018년 1월 1일부터 12월 31일까지의 국가응급진료정보망 자료를 이용하여 응급의료기관 종별과 ACSCs의 비율, 응급실 재실시간, 입원일수, 입원율을 살펴보았다. 응급의료기관 종별에서는 지역응급의료센터의 비율이 높았고(P<0.001), ACSCs의 질환 비율에서 성인은 위장염 31.7%와 노인은 폐렴 48.2%로 높게 나타났다(P<0.001). 응급실 재실시간은 울혈성심부전과 당뇨를 제외한 모든 질환에서 노인이 길게 나타났고(P<0.001), 입원일수는 ACSCs 모든 질환에서 노인이 유의하게 길게 나타났으며(P<0.05), 입원율은 당뇨를 제외한 모든 질환에서 노인의 비율이 유의하게 높았다(P<0.01). 이와 같이 ACSCs로 인한 응급실 이용을 파악하여 외래 중심으로 치료를 유도할 수 있도록 의료정책을 강화해야 할 것이다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.2161-2168
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• 2010

본 연구는 행정자료인 건강보험 및 의료급여비용 청구자료를 이용하였으며, 일개지역(2개도, 남 북)에 개설 되어있는 전체 의료기관을 대상으로 진료일 기준 '08.7월~'08.12월(184일)동안 외래 방문이 1회 이상인 30세 이상의 수진자 485,953명을 대상으로 하였다. 진료지속성과 영향 요인을 분석한 결과 다음과 같다. 우리나라 성인 고혈압 환자의 평균 진료지속성 수준은 MMCI, $0.96{\pm}0.13$, MFPC $0.96{\pm}0.12$으로 높게 나타났다. 외래진료 지속성에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 여성일수록, 55세~64세 이상 연령일수록, 동반상병이 있을수록 통계적으로 유의하게 낮았으며, 주이용기관이 상위 종별일수록 통계적으로 유의하게 MMCI와 MFPC 모두 높게 나타났다. 이 연구에서는 우리나라 성인 고혈압환자의 평균 진료지속성 수준은 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 여성, 64세 이상 연령 등 진료지속성이 낮은 대상자에 대한 관리가 필요할 것으로 보인다. 이 연구 결과는 우리나라 고혈압환자들의 건강관리 행태를 모니터하는 지표 및 국가의 고혈압관리사업의 성과지표로써 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.31-58
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• 1995

The Korean government achieved the universal coverage of health insurance in July 1989, and concomitantly introduced a new measure of regulated health care delivery system in using medical care. There are three reasons why the government took the new health care delivery system. Firstly, there was ample room for improving the allocative efficiency in the use of medical facilities. And the second one was to constrain the dramatic increase of medical demand under health insurance. Thirdly, and the most important reason was to alleviate the patient crowdedness in big general hospitals, particularly tertiary hospitals. There are essentially two different ways to control the use of health care : one is to cut the demand for health care, and the other to regulate behaviors of providers through the use of incentives/disincentives, demand-side approach or supply-side approach. The objective of this study is to examine whether or not medical care utilization behaviors under health insurance scheme have been changed among medical facilities such as clinic, hospital, general hospital and tertiary hospital in comparison with those before and after the introduction, particularly whether the patient crowdedness in tertiary hospitals has been alleviated or not. In order to conduct this study, the insurance claim data during the period of January 1989 and July 1992 were analyzed by focusing on diagnosis of both inpatients and outpatients, and especially the fifteen most frequent diseases in ambulatory care and the seven most frequent diseases in hospitalizatio. In addition, the same analyses were made on the changes in medical care utilization by specialty department. This was because the five departments, such as family medicine, ENT, eye, dermatology and rehabilitation, were exempted from applying the regulated health care delivery system in tertiary hospitals. The study revealed that a remarkable alleviation effect in the crowdness was noted for tertiary hospitals. This effect was most conspicuous for the most frequent mild diseases of both inpatient and outpatient care. For example, the fifteen most frequent OPD care at tertiary facilities have decreased as much as by 40%, of which 34% belonged to the cut in initial visits. Meanwhile, the proportion of those who used general hospitals and private practitioner's clinics have increased due to the shift of patients. The cases from the five special departments were also decreased, but not so much as other departments. A problem was noted that, as time passed by, the decreasing tendencies of crowdness at tertiary hospitals due to the regulated system became slightly smaller. Therefore, through complementary remedies are needed for the future implementation.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2015

Purpose : This study examined the social and environmental change in the outpatient department of psychiatry, were analyzed disease characteristics and using characteristics of the mental illness. Thus, this aims to provide a material that can be used for efficient spatial composition of psychiatry. Methods : This study was conducted through a literature review, observation surveys, interviews. Results : Psychiatry is aware of the need to respond to the current needs of ambulatory space, there are concerns that the spatial configuration for your needs. In accordance with the results of studies conducted are as follows: 1) Specialty care programs and space needs based on segmentation and specialization of the disease 2) Considered in conjunction with the layout of essential space and other departments 3) Spatial composition and furnishings for characteristic of psychiatry 4) Spatial configuration taking into account the patient's characteristic. Implications : This study looked at the change of social change and the environment related to psychiatry. Grasp the present state of spatial composition in psychiatry. And the use characteristics of patients and guardians were investigated. Meanwhile, studies of psychiatric outpatient department is still lacking. As a result, its significance is to analyze the spatial composition requirements.