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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.11.7463

The Effect on Health Care Utilization of the Non-Use of Beneficiaries of Long-Term Care Insurance Service - around of Geriatric Hospital's Medical Cost -  

Jung, Woon-Sool (Division of Occupational Therapy, Kyungdong University)
Yim, Eun-Shil (Division of Nursing, Daegu Health College)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.11, 2015 , pp. 7463-7473 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to analyze the effect of long-term care utilization on health care utilization of the national health insurance elderly. This study is a secondary data analysis of the long-term care insurance data that comprised of total 21,213 long-term care insurance with the level 1 elders who received either service or non-service. This study evaluated the impact of long-term care service on the probability of health care utilization experience and costs of health care utilization. The total medical cost, geriatric hospital's medical cost, inpatient day and geriatric hospital's inpatient day by 2007-2009 were significant factor influencing the long-term care utilization. This study suggests long term care system should proper medical service linkage system. The current long-term care insurance system should more resource allocation on long-term care utilization to increase the efficiency of insurance system.
Keywords
Elderly; Inpatient; Long term care utilization; Medical cost; National health insurance;
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