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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.3.428

Service Status and Employee Awareness of Hospice&Palliative Care on the Long-term Care Hospital  

Cho, Hyun (Dept. of Health Policy & Management, Inje University Inje Institute of Hospice & Palliative Care(IHPC))
Sim, Eunkyung (Dept. of Beauty care, College of Health, Social Welfare & Education, Tongmyong Unversity)
Im, Heeyoung (Dept. of Health Policy & Management, Inje University)
Lee, Sojeong (Dept. of Health Policy & Management, Inje University)
Jeon, Hyojeong (Dept. of Health Policy & Management, Inje University)
Heo, Hyeonjeom (Dept. of Health Policy & Management, Inje University)
Oh, Sumi (Dept. of Health Policy & Management, Inje University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.3, 2017 , pp. 428-436 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the study subjects' awareness on hospice & palliative care service; and explore its activation methods of Long-term care hospitals located in the metropolitan cities B and K. The total of returned survey was answered from 183 employees on Long-term care hospitals which it was selected 13 institutions. One month to study during from July 1 to July 30, 2016 the researchers visited to investigate relevant data and surveyed to examine their awareness and activation methods. The returned survey questionnaires were processed with SPSS 21.0 for basic data analysis. The results of the 13 institutions under this research, 9 institutions provided hospice & palliative care education once a year. Most of the staff members were found to be aware of the idea of hospice & palliative care, think of it as a good program, and wish it to be implemented(81.9%). They answered that the reason of not implementing the hospice&palliative care was the 'lack of personnel(50.8%)', 'lack of knowledge on hospice&palliative care program; and presented activation method was 'insurance fee introduction(15.8%)' followed by 'service education(15%)' and 'governmental financial support(14%)'.
Keywords
Employee awareness; Hospice&Palliative Care; Insurance; Long-term Care Hospital; Service Status;
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