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Suggestion for the Application of the ADR system under the Patient Safety Act (환자안전법상 ADR제도 적용을 위한 제언)

  • Mingyu, Choi
    • Journal of Arbitration Studies
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.3-31
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    • 2022
  • In the past, there has not been a law with the main purpose of preventing or preventing a risk in advance in order to protect the safety of patients in relation to medical services. It is evaluated that the enactment of the Patient Safety Act has a very important meaning in protecting patient safety as the top priority and further improving the quality of medical care. However, looking at the status of patient safety accidents reported to the Patient Safety Reporting System after the Patient Safety Act was enacted and implemented, various types of risk factors for patient safety still exist in the medical field. Meanwhile, Korea Consumer Agency and Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency, the existing domestic ADR specialized agencies, have been operating reasonable damage relief procedures such as recommendation of settlement, mediation, and arbitration according to the purpose of their establishment. Therefore, with the aimof broadening the choice of compensation system for patients, we propose the establishment and revision of ADR-related laws to apply the damage relief procedures of both institutions.

A Study for Usage Patterns and Recognition toward Korean Medicine in Korea High School Students (고등학생의 한의약 의료 이용 형태 및 인식에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Sung-Hun;Kim, Gi-Ryang;Jeong, Joon-Soo;Sung, Hyun-Kyung;Lee, Ju-Ah;Kang, So-Hyeon;Kim, Young-Ji;Kong, Kyung-Hwan;Go, Ho-Yeon
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : This study is to research on usage patterns, recognition of system to Korean medicine among high school students who are the potential future medical consumer. Methods : Based on the questionnaire used by KIHASA(Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs) in 2011 and KHIDI(Korea Health Industry Development Institute) in 2014, modifications were made to make questionnaire more suitable for this research. This self-administered questionnaire was conducted among 1,025 highschool students of 3 high schools in Ulsan city on september, 2015. Except 19 cases which considered statistically insignificant or with unreliable responses, 1,007 cases were analyzed by p-paired test and ANOVA test through the SPSS 22.0 for Win program. Results : Most of the high school students(66.5%) do not have an experience on Korean medical care. The number of students' first experience on Korean medical care is the largest during their elementary school (34.9%), which means the treatment was mostly for restorative reasons like growth care. The later the time of their first experience on Korean medical care, the higher ratio was shown on their recent utilization of Korean medical care. Korean medicine was rarely covered in most cases of public health education at school, and this public health education and usage pattern on Korean medicine have positive correlation. Compared 'Group who have used Korean medical care in 1 years except recent 3 months' to the 'Group who have used Korean medical care in 3 recent months', the former showed higher recognition in Korean medical care and insurance system. Conclusions : The proportion of Korean medicine is as low as 4.5% to whole medical market, and most of the consumers are senior. In addition, the aging phenomenon of Korean medical consumer have been continued. This specialized study on usage patterns and recognition among youth can be the basic research data which can be used for promotion, education and establishment of health policy and health care system.

A Study on the Analysis of Korean Medical Services using Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling : Focusing on online reviews by medical consumers (Latent Dirichlet Allocation 토픽모델링을 이용한 한방 의료 서비스 분석에 관한 연구 : 의료 소비자의 온라인 리뷰를 중심으로)

  • Son, Chaeyeon;Song, Yeonwoo;Lee, Seungho
    • Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.43-57
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    • 2022
  • Objective : This study aims to understand the consumer's needs for Korean medicine medical service using online review analysis of medical consumers. Methods : We analyzed the purpose and satisfaction factors of medical service use using LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) topic modeling. The data used in the study was 120,727 screened reviews written by medical consumers registered on Naver. The analyzed results were compared with the "2020 Korean Medicine Utilization Survey". Results : From 2018 to 2021, the five most frequently used terms were "kindness", "treatment", "doctor", "Korean medicine", and "acupuncture". The main purpose of visiting Korean medicine medical clinic and hospital was to treat "traffic accidents" in 2018, "waist(back) pain" in 2019, "musculoskeletal pain" in 2020 & 2021. Based on the rating, reviewers were satisfied with "explanation of treatment" and "treatment attitude", and dissatisfied with "accessibility to the institution". Conclusion : We concluded that the main purpose of use of Korean medicine institution was to treat musculoskeletal disorders. Based on the results of this study, it is expected that it will be used to improve Korean medicine medical service in the future.

The Effect of Psychological Control Felt by Overseas Medical Tourists on Service Satisfaction and Word of Mouth Communication (해외 의료관광객이 느끼는 통제력이 서비스 만족 및 구전의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Chengcheng Ma;Jungki Lee
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.25-44
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    • 2023
  • Receiving medical services abroad is an event that involves a high level of risk and stress for most people. This study proposes and empirically examines perceived control as a factor that has a potential to reduce the stress associated with overseas medical experience and enhance satisfaction with it. Based on the research findings in environmental psychology, one's perceived control was divided into cognitive control, behavior control, and decision control. A research model and a set of hypotheses were constructed to investigate the effect of each control on satisfaction and word-of-mouth communications among consumers who had overseas medical service experiences. The data collection was conducted through an online survey of 220 Chinese consumers who had visited Korea as plastic medicine tourists. Satisfaction with their service experience was significantly affected by both behavioral control and decisional control, but not by cognitive control. Thus, Chinese medical tourists prefer to maintain the belief that they are in charge of major decisions associated with the medical procedure, and that the results of the medical procedure will have personally desirable consequences. In addition, satisfaction experienced by Chinese consumers with overseas medical services had a significant impact on their word-of-mouth activities. Based on the research results, a set of academic and practical implications were derived.

The Relationship between Status of Medical Knowledge of Medical Consumers and Satisfaction of Medical Service (의료 소비자의 의학적 지식 유무와 의료서비스만족도 관계)

  • Choi, Hyung-Seok;Kim, Gyoo Hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.367-372
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    • 2018
  • The supply of medical services using high-priced medical equipment is increasing due to the medicalization of medical science. The level of medical knowledge of medical consumers and the ability to select medical institutions are required to provide high quality medical services because of the popularization of medical information. As the attitudes of medical consumers toward medical institutions change, medical institutions also need to change their perception to improve customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to analyze the difference of medical service satisfaction according to the medical knowledge about the utility of PET / CT in order to change the consciousness structure of medical service. The results of this study showed that both medical satisfaction and environmental satisfaction were high in those who had medical knowledge about their own illness and the usefulness of PET / CT. Therefore, medical institutions will need a practical medical service countermeasures to provide medical information by noticing the changes in perception of the medical knowledge of medical consumers, rather than providing formal medical services.

Time series analysis for the amount of medicine from the Korea Consumer Agency (한국 소비자원 의료분야 처리금액에 대한 시계열 분석)

  • Hee Song Kang;Sukhui Kwon;SungDuck Lee
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2023
  • The amount of money processed in medicine from the Korea Consumer Agency was studied by the various time series models. The medical data set from the Korea Consumer Agency were consisted of counseling, damage relief and conciliation. For the analysis of time series, autoregressive moving average model, vector autoregressive model and the transfer function model were used. We considered the stationarity and cross correlation function for the identification and fitting. As a result, the transfer function model showed a better prediction. Whereas, the vector autoregressive model also provided good information for the degree and duration of the influence of variables.

Technology Acceptance Model for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Service (소비자대상직접시행 유전자검사서비스의 기술수용모델)

  • Hyunjin Choi;Daecheol Kim
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.191-201
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    • 2024
  • The purpose of this study is to identify factors that influence consumers' acceptance intentions towards Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Genetic Testing service. DTC genetic testing service can be considered in two aspects: the application of new technology in genetic testing customers can directly purchase and the services for receiving the test results customer can't directly analyze. Existing technology-based acceptance models have difficulty fully explaining consumers' acceptance intentions towards DTC genetic testing services. Therefore, this study aims to propose a new acceptance model considering these two characteristics. A survey was conducted with 377 potential consumers for this research. The analysis revealed that health interest, prior knowledge, subjective norms, innovativeness, perceived usefulness, and perceived value affect consumers' acceptance intentions. The results obtained through this study can help establish strategies and marketing plans necessary for the diffusion of services, such as DTC genetic testing services, that combine a new technology and a service. In the long term, the accumulated DTC genetic testing results data can contribute to the development of national genetic information infrastructure and preventive medical applications, as well as improve individuals' quality of life.

Relationship among Nursing Service Quality, Medical Service Satisfaction, and Hospital Revisit Intent (간호서비스 질, 의료서비스 만족, 병원 재이용 의도간의 관계)

  • Lee, Mi-Aie;Gong, Soung-Wha;Cho, Su-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.96-105
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: This study was done to examine the influence of nursing service quality and medical service satisfaction on intent to revisit the hospital, and to identify mediating effects of medical service satisfaction between nursing service quality and intent to revisit the hospital. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey. Participants were 390 hospitalized patients at one general hospital in Gyeonggi Province. Data were collected from July 21 to September 10, 2010 and analyzed using SPSS/PC version 18.0. Results: The score for nursing service quality continuously improved but the scores for medical service satisfaction and intent to revisit the hospital did not changed significantly after estimated. Factors influencing intent to revisit the hospital were nursing service quality, medical service satisfaction, 'same religion', and 'Christian', and the explanation power of these four factors was 79.7%. Medical service satisfaction had a partial mediating effect between nursing service quality and intent to revisit the hospital. Conclusion: Findings indicate that nursing service quality is a very important factor to improve both medical service satisfaction and intent to revisit the hospital. Nursing managers should develop strategies to improve nursing service quality.

Comparative Study of the National Policies for Korean Oriental Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (한의학과 중의학에 대한 국가정책 비교연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Ji
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.1132-1139
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    • 2008
  • The structure of medical profession is composed of multiple relations among state, patients, and medical professions. There are conflicts between the nation and medical professions because the nation controls the monopoly of medical professions through medical policies. Patients make relations with medical profession as medical consumers. And medical professions compete each other in order to gain the control of the medical market. This paper attempts to review the dynamic relations between the nation and medical professions. The medical professions and the nation are in conflict about the control of the autonomy of medical professions. The medical professions want to exercise the monopoly rights in their own area and, on the other had, the nation wants to prevent problems that might result from the monopoly by regulations and to have the control over the national operation. Given this, the common view of medical sociology is that the nation and the medical professions are in constant conflict. The arguments that the present medical sociology has on the relationship between the nation and medical professions can be summarized like these: first, the nation is the authenticator of medical system; second, the nation is a medical provider and consumer; and, third, the nation is a mediator of regulations and conflicts. Based on the above mentioned relations between the nation and medical professions, this paper attempts to see how the nation, which is one component of the medical structure, make influences on Korean Oriental doctors and Traditional Chinese doctors. So as to do this, the changes in medical policies and promoting policies for Korean Oriental medicine and Traditional Chinese medicine are analyzed. Finally, the differences in national policies of Korean Oriental medicine and Traditional Chinese medicine are compared.

Study on Structural Relationship of Medical Information Quality, Usability, Attitude and Satisfaction of Hospital Web site According to Medical Examination and Treatment Subjects (진료과목에 따른 병원 웹사이트의 의료정보 품질과 사용성, 태도, 만족의 구조적 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Chang, Young-Il;Jung, You-Soo;Kim, Kyoung-Hwan
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.35-61
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    • 2010
  • The Internet marketing of hospital is being considered as a strategic requirement that can satisfy the customers. Therefore, it is very important to understand the effects of the medical information on the Internet on the actual consumers. In this study, the paths through which the attitude and satisfaction of the medical information consumers that visit hospital web site are formed for the medical information through the quality of the medical information on the Internet and usability of hospital web site were examined respectively according to the medical examination and treatment subjects that respectively deal with medical acts and cosmetic acts through light metabolism recovery. The usability of hospital web site, rather than medical information quality, had positive effects on the attitudes toward the medical information distributed in the corresponding web site and the satisfaction of use of hospital web site in the case of visitors of the hospital web site for the medical examination and treatment subjects of essential medical examination and treatment and emergency medical treatment, and, on the other hand, the result of analyzing the path of the medical examination and treatment subjects of cosmetics and functional improvement revealed that the medical information quality had positive effects on the medical information attitudes and the usage satisfaction of hospital web site. Accordingly, the attitudes toward the medical information distributed through the web site by the visitors of hospital web site is formed from the quality of medical information and web site usability, and, ultimately, they become generally satisfied with the hospital web site. Such process is revealed different1y according to the medical examination and treatment subjects for which consumers desire to obtain information.