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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2010.11.6.2161

Analysis of the Continuity of Outpatient among Adult Patients with hypertension and its Influential Factors in Korea  

Son, Kyung-Ae (Department of Health Science, Hanyang University)
Kim, Yoon-Shin (Department of Health Science, Hanyang University)
Hong, Min-Hee (Department of Dental Hygiene kangwon National University)
Jeong, Mi-As (Department of Dental Hygiene kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.11, no.6, 2010 , pp. 2161-2168 More about this Journal
Abstract
The administration data of the national health insurance and health insurance bills were utilized in this study. The data of 485,953 patients who were at the age of 30 and up and used the out-patient departments of every medical institution located in some regions involving two southern and northern provinces once or more during a 184-day period from July to December, 2008. As a result of analyzing their Continuity of Ambulatory Care and factors affecting it, the following findings were given: The continuity of ambulatory care among the adult patients with hypertension in our country turned out to be on a high level(MMCI $0.96{\pm}0.13$, MFPC $0.96{\pm}0.12$). Given examining the outpatient medical-cure continuity level according to index, the averagely medical-cure continuity level was calculated to be high level with MMCI, $0.96{\pm}0.13$, and MFPC $0.96{\pm}0.12$. Thus, the tendency of visiting only one medical provider was high. The findings of the study illustrated that the average continuity of ambulatory care among the adult patients with hypertension in our country was on a high level, and it seemed that special care should be provided to patients with a low-level continuity of ambulatory care, such as women and elderly people aged 64 and over. The findings of the study are expected to serve as one of the barometers for the health care of patients with hypertension and for the performance of national hypertension management plans.
Keywords
Hypertension; Continuity index; Ambulatory care continuity;
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