• 의료법학
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.81-119
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• 2022

대상판결은 시장지배적 지위 남용에 관한 다양한 쟁점을 다루었을 뿐만 아니라, 경쟁제한효과가 문제된 시장이 의료기기 시장이라는 측면에서도 여러 시사점을 제시하고 있다. 첫째, 관련상품 시장의 측면에서 대상판결이 주상품(CT, MRI 등 의료기기) 시장과 부상품(유지보수서비스) 시장이 밀접하게 관련되어 있다고 하더라도 이를 하나의 시장으로 보기 어렵다고 판단한 것은 수긍할 수 있다. 둘째, 대상판결은 고착효과에 관하여 명시적인 판시를 하지 않았으나, 관련시장에 대한 판단에서 높은 주상품 가격, 주상품의 사용연한이 장기인 점 등을 고려하는 등 실질적으로 고착효과를 반영한 것으로 보인다. 셋째, 객관적 행위 요건으로 '정상적인 거래관행에 반하는 타당성 없는 조건'에 대하여 대상판결은 저작권자가 실시료를 받고 저작권을 실시하는 행위는 정당한 권리행사이며, 원고가 유상의 라이선스 정책을 가지고 이를 실행하며, 예외적인 경우에만 무상으로 실시를 하였으므로 공정위가 주장하는 무상실시 관행을 증거로 인정할 수 없음을 지적하였다. 넷째, 이 사건에서 경쟁자의 비용 상승은 원고가 서비스 소프트웨어 사용에 필요한 서비스키를 유상으로 제공한 행위를 통하여 이루어졌고, 원고의 행위가 지식재산권의 행사로 정당하다면 설령 그러한 행위로 경쟁이 제한된다고 하여 이를 남용행위로 보기는 어렵다고 판단하였다. 대상판결이 다룬 관련시장의 획정, 시장지배력의 존부, 객관적 행위 요건, 경쟁제한효과 등 주요 쟁점에 대하여 대법원이 시장지배적 지위 남용행위의 증명기준과 증명도의 방향을 제시할 기준을 판시할 것으로 기대한다.

• 보건의료산업학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.14-24
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• 2009

This study aims at deriving any useful information necessary to strengthen the competitiveness for growth through empirical analyses on general hospital located in a province in order to countermeasure the opening and competition of medical markets. The characteristics of user were identified on the basis of disease groups under KCD in the research method. In addition, the analysis on the expenses of diagnosis and treatment was divided into the treatment progress and degree of hospital resource utilization And the regression was carried out to identify the impacts of characteristics of inpatient users on the degree of hospital resource utilization. As a result of major research, the inpatient users of the general hospital located in the provincial area in consideration of inpatient users were formed around the inpatient disease groups representative for Korea(diseases of the respiratory system, injury and poisoning & certain other consequences of external causes). And it was understood that most of residents within a distance of 40 minute by the public transportation were using. And mostly were under the age of 9 or over 60, and the provision of medical features such as the degree of consultation and operational functions were inadequate. When we classify inpatient treatment cost for each resource application as the medical cost being the center of patient care function, the equipment and human resource application sector are constituted over half. Accordingly, the following suggestions are made as plans to strengthen the competitiveness for the growth of general hospitals located in the provincial areas on the basis of analytical results. First, it is necessary to have the characterization matching to the age and disease groups with a high frequency. Second, it is necessary to increase the degree of hospital resource utilization according to the characterization. Third, it is necessary to concentrate on public relations. The above suggestion, as a method for securing image improvement and competitive power as a general hospital, and through expansion of social function that a regional general hospital needs to secure not only as an individual institution but also as a general hospital, it can be seen that a general improvement of image as a regional general hospital is possible.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.57-95
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• 1972

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of service by maternity aids concerning maternal and child health in improving simultaneously infant mortality, contraception and vital registration among expectant mothers in rural Korea, where there is less apportunity for maternal and child health care. It is unrealistic to expect to solve this problem in rural Korea through professional persons considering the situation of medical facilities and the socioeconomic condition of residents. So, we intended to adopt a system of services by maternity aids who were educated formally among indigenous women. After the women were trained in maternal and child health, contraception, and registration for a short period, they were assigned as a maternity aids to each village to help with various activities concerning maternal and child health, for example, registration of pregnant women, home visiting to check for complications, supplying of delivery kits, attendance at delivery, persuasion of contraception, and invitation for registration and so on. Mean-while, four researchers called on the maternity aids to collect materials concerning vital events, maternal child health, contraception and registration, and to give further instruction and supervision as the program proceeded. A. Changes of women's attitude by services of maternity aid. Now, we examined to what extent' such a service system to expectant mothers affected a change in attitude of women residing in the study area as compared to women of the control area. 1) In the birth and death places, there were no changes between last and present infants, in study or control area. 2) In regard to attendants at delivery, there were no changes except for a small percentage of attendance (8%) by maternity aid in study area. But, I expect that more maternity sids could be used as attendants at delivery if they would be trained further and if there was more explanation to the residents about such a service. 3) Considering the rate of utilization of sterilized delivery kit, I am sure that more than 90 percent would be used if the delivery kit were supplied in the proper time. There were significant differences in rates between the study and the control areas. 4) Taking into consideration the utilization rate of the clinic for prenatal care and well baby care, if suck facilities were installed, it would probably be well utilized. 5) In the contraception, the rate of approval was as high as 89 percent in study area as compared to 82 percent in the control area. 6) Considering the rate of pre-and post-partum acceptance on contraception were as much as 70 percent or more, if motivation to use contraception was given to them adequately, the government could reach the goals for family planning as planned. 7) In the vital registration, the rate of birth registration in the study area was some what improved compared to that of the control area, while the rate of death registration was not changed at all. Taking into account the fact that the rate of confirmation of vital events by maternity aids was remarkably high, if the registration system changed to a 'notification' system instead of formal registration ststem, it would be improved significantly compared to present system. B. Effect of the project Thus, with changes in the residents' attitude, was there a reduction in the infant death rate? 1) It is very difficult problem to compare the mortality of infants between last and present infants, because many women don't want to answer accurately about their dead children especially the infants that died within a few days after birth. In this study the data of present death comes from the maternity aides who followed up every pregnancy they had recorded to see what had happened. They seem to have very reliable information on what happened in first few weeks with follow up visitits to check out later changes. From these calculaton, when we compared the rate of infant death between last and present infant, there was remarkable reduction of death rate for present infant compare to that of last children, namely, the former was 30, while the latter 42. The figure is the lowest rate that I have ever heard. As the quality of data we could assess by comparing the causes of death. In the current death rate by communicable disease was much lower compare to the last child especially, tetanus cases and pneumonia. 2) Next, how many respondents used contraception after birth because of frequent contact with the maternity aid. In the registered cases, the respondents showed a tendency to practice contraception at an earlier age and with a small number of children. In a comparison of the rate of contraception between the study and the control area, the rate in the former was significantly higher than that of the latter. What is more, the proportion favoring smaller numbers of children and younger women rose in the study area as compared to the control area. 3) Regarding vital registration, though the rate of registration was gradually improved by efforts of maternity aid, it would be better to change the registration system. 4) In the crude birth rate, the rate in the study area was 22.2 while in the control area was 26.5. Natural increase rate showed 15.4 in the study area, while control area was 19.1. 5) In assessment of the efficiency of the maternity aids judging by the cost-effect viewpoint, the workers in the Medium area seemed to be more efficiency than those of other areas.

• 대한예방한의학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.1-24
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• 2000

This study was conducted to examine utilization patterns and determinants of oriental medical services. Data were collected from 545 residents in Taegu city The results of this study are summarized as follows 1) 37.8% of subjects used oriental medical services in the past year. Especially, the female, the ages of 50 and 60 over, the single. low-educated. high-income class, white-collar class, medical insured tended to use more oriental medical services than another groups. 2) 46.7% of users of oriental medical services reported that number of visits in the past year was 2 - 5 times 37 1% of them was 1 times, and 4.5% over 10 times. 3) According to the reasons to choose the oriental medical facilities, most was 'on their own judgement'(48.8%) and 'by the advice of relatives and friends'(42.0%) Regarding to the objectives of using oriental medicine, 68.3% was 'treatment', 31.7% 'health counselling and promotion'. And among diseases of users, diseases of musculo-skeletal system was the highest(54.5%). 4) 57.9% of oriental medical services users had experience of utilizing western medicine on the same diseases. Among peoples with experiencing western medicine on the same diseases. 54.4% received oriental medical services 'in addition to western medicine', 45.6%'in place of western medicine 'And 41.2% of using both services reported that they had difficulty in deciding to choose the type of services -oriental medical services or western medicine-for their diseases. 37.3% of them answered that 'providing relevant information' was the most desirable measure to solve this problem, 27.3% 'establishment of effective referral system between oriental and western medical facilities '23.6% 'cooperative medical treatment systems in the same facilities', 11.8%'integration of oriental medicine into western medicine 5) According to the satisfaction level with each items of oriental medical services, the respondents had positive views on efficacy, kindness, and side-effects. They, however, had negative view on the cost of oriental medical services. 6) In regarding to the priority of improvement of oriental medical system,'expansion of insurance benefit package 'ranked first. 'expansion of insurance benefit Package 'ranked second, 'improvement of scientific methods and diagnostic technique 'third, and 'safety of herbal medicine' fourth in order. 7) The significant factors influencing the utilization of oriental medical services were kindness of oriental medical practitioners, efficacy , travel time, age To be brief, utilization rate of oriental medical services in urban area generally tends to be high. There, however, have been various barriers to limit oriental medical services, such as incomplete benefit package of oriental medical insurance and lack of coordination and referral system between oriental and western medical services, lack of scientific diagnostic procedures, high price etc . For the development of oriental medical services, Much attention to remove these limiting factors should be placed. In addition, kindness of oriental medical practitioners , which is expected to be more important factor in the consumer - focused health care environment than ever, should be kept high consistently. Since this study was conducted for specific residents of an urban city. further research including more sampling in different urban areas should be required to generalize the results of the study.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.35-47
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• 1999

노인에서 처방약 복용에 대한 불순응의 문제는 의학적으로 심각한 문제의 발생과 경제적인 손실을 가져오게 된다. 이 연구는 1996년 7월 24 일부터 8월 13일 사이에 경상북도 김천시 금릉군에 거주하는 60세 이상의 농촌 노인을 대상으로 이루어진 단면적인 면접조사이다. 노인에서의 비고이적인 약물복용 불순응의 원인이 되는 약물복용 능력의 실태를 파악하고, 약물 복용능력과 건강상태, 일상적 생활 활동, 가족적 지지, 그리고 인지기능을 비롯한 다양한 변수, 일반적 특성 등과의 관련성을 조사 분석함으로써 약물 복용 실행능력을 예측할 수 있는 예측자를 찾고자 하였다. 현재 복용하고 있는 약물이 있다고 답한 사람은 48.8%였다. 93%가 혼자서 정확한 시간에, 정확한 용량으로 복용할 수 있다고 답하였고, 6%가 약간의 도움이 필요하다고 하거나 혼자 복용할 수 없다고 답하였다. 약물 복용 수행능력과 일반적 특성 및 연구 변수들간의 차이에는 연령과 교육수준, IADL, MMSE-K가 혼자서 독립적으로 복용할 수 없는 군 사이에 유의한 차이가 있었으며, 상관분석에는 ADL, IADL, MMSE-K, BDI가 유의한 상관이 있었다. 단일변수분석과 상관분석에서 약물 복용 능력과 유의한 관련성을 보인 변수를 선택하여 투입한 로지스틱 회귀분석에서 IADL과 성이 최종적으로 선택되었다. 다른 건강수준 측정법 보다 수단적 일상생활 정도는 약물복용 수행능력에 더 민감한 예측자로의 역할이 기대되므로 투약관리와 약물 복용 수행 능력에 대한 정신적 상태를 평가하는 고식적 방법에 추가정보를 제공할 수 있을것으로 판단된다. 추후 약물복용 순응도의 다면적인 면을 고려한 연구가 입 퇴원환자를 중심으로 한 정확한 투약 순응도와 규모 파악, 이를 향상시킬 수 있는 구체적인 방안을 모색하는 방향을 중재 연구와 인지기능 및 운동기등 등의 정신 및 신체조건에 따른 약물 복용 순응도에 초점이 맞춘 다양하고 집중적인 연구자 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.162-170
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• 2017

본 연구는 중소병원 간호인력 현황과 관련 정책을 분석하고 인력 확보에 영향을 주는 요인을 파악하여 중소병원 간호인력 확보를 위한 정책을 입안하고 결정하는 데에 근거를 제시하고자 실시되었다. 보건복지부와 건강보험심사평가원 등에서 제시한 통계자료를 2차 분석한 후 그 결과를 다양한 내 외적 보건의료환경에 대한 이해를 기반으로 조명하였다. 연구결과 우리나라의 활동 간호사 수는 면허간호사 수의 50% 미만으로 그 수는 해마다 감소하고 있었으며, 이는 간호대학 정원증가의 비용 대비 성과의 효율성을 재고할 필요가 있음을 의미한다. 또한 간호관리료 차등제 실시로 인해 신규간호사는 물론 간호사 인력부족이 심각한 중소병원의 경력간호사들이 상급종합병원으로 이동하게 되는 결과를 야기하였으며, 결국 중소병원 간호인력 부족 현상을 더욱 악화시키는 원인이 되었다. 따라서 입원환자 간호관리료 차등제가 중소병원 간호인력 확보 정책으로 실효성이 있는지에 대한 재검토가 필요하며, 면허간호사에 대한 추적 관리 시스템을 통해 간호인력 수급의 불균형을 해소할 수 있어야 한다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제82권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2019

Background: Understanding the burden of disease is important to establish cost-effective treatment strategies and to allocate healthcare resources appropriately. However, little reliable information is available regarding the overall economic burden imposed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Korea. Methods: This study is a multicenter observational research on the COPD burden in Korea. Total COPD costs were comprised of three categories: direct medical, direct non-medical, and indirect costs. For direct medical costs, institutional investigation was performed at 13 medical facilities mainly based on the claims data. For direct non-medical and indirect costs, site-based surveys were administered to the COPD patients during routine visits. Total costs were estimated using the COPD population defined in the recent report. Results: The estimated total costs were approximately 1,245 million US dollar (1,408 billion Korean won). Direct medical costs comprised approximately 20% of the total estimated costs. Of these, formal medical costs held more than 80%. As direct non-medical costs, nursing costs made up the largest percentage (39%) of the total estimated costs. Costs for COPD-related loss of productivity formed four fifths of indirect costs, and accounted for up to 33% of the total costs. Conclusion: This study shows for the first time the direct and indirect costs of COPD in Korea. The total costs were enormous, and the costs of nursing and lost productivity comprised approximately 70% of total costs. The results provide insight for an effective allocation of healthcare resources and to inform establishment of strategies to reduce national burden of COPD.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.49-76
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• 1994

Small area variations in health care utilization have long been studied as an important issue related to boto cost containment and quality assurance. This study was conducted to investigate if variations in hospital services across small geographic areas in Korea existed. The claims data of the fiscal year 1992 obtained from the regional health insurance societies were used for the study. Main findings of the research can be summarized as follows : 1. Extremal Quotients(EQ) of hospital expenditure per capita and hospital days per capita varied among diagnosis types. The EQ ranged from 2.05(cataract) to 41.67(pneumonia) in hospital expenditure per capita and from 1.86(cataract) to 45.89(pneumonia) in hospital days per capita. The diagnosis groups which showed high variation were pneumonia, cephalo-pelvic disproportion, gastritis and duodenitis, fracture of rib, and acute bronchitis. Those which showed low variation were acute appendicitis and cataract. 2. The EQ level of admission rate was different in terms of diagnosis types, ranging from 2.57(catarct) to 44.45(pneumonia). The variations were high in medical disorders such as pneumonia, oephalo-pelvic disproportion, gastritis and duodenitis and acute bronchitis, while relatively low in surgical conditions such as acute appendicitis and cataract. 3. As an indicator of service intensity, the EQ of expenditure per admission ranged from 1.67(acute appendicitis) to 31.27(essential hypertension). The diagnoses which had high variation were essential hypertension, gastric ulcer, whereas those which had low variation were cephalopelvic disproportion and acute appendicitis. With regard to hospital days per admission, the EQ ranged from 1.55(acute appendicitis) to 28.13(gastric ulcer) by diagnosis types. The diagnosis groups with showed high variation were gastric ulcer, essential hypertension, and acute bronchitis, whereas those with low variation were cephalo-pelvic disproportion, intervertebral disc disorders, and acute appendicitis. Both the expenditure and hospital days per admission showed lewwer variations than the expenditure per capita, hospital days per capita and admission rate. 4. Comparing patterns of variation in utilization indices, diagnoses such as essential hypertension, gastric ulcer, fracture of rib showed higher variations in expenditure per admission than in admission rates, whereas diagnoses such as pneumonia, cephalo-pelvic disproportion and gastric ulcer showed higher variations in admission rate than expenditure per admission. These findings suggest that wide variations existed in several diagnoses groups across small areas in Korea. Further research should be performed to investigate factors related to small area variations including provider behavior.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.65-77
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• 1999

보건지소에 대한 도시근교 농가구원의 인식도 및 이용률, 이용양상과 이에 관련된 요인을 조사하여 향후 도시근교 보건지소 활성화 및 개선방안에 참고자료를 제공하고 지역주민의 포괄적 보건의료서비스 제공 및 이용의 적정 유지를 위한 기본자료로 삼고자 696명을 면접 설문조사하여 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 지난 1년간 보건지소를 이용한 지역주민은 전체대상의 25.0%이었으며 지역주민의 연간 평균 방문횟수는 0.22회였다. 2. 보건지소 이용자의 이용시 질병은 근골격계 및 결합조직의 질환 30.6%, 호흡계질환 14.1%, 소화기계질환 13.9% 순이었다. 3. 보건지소 이용동기는 가까운 거리 49.6%, 경한 증상 18.9%, 낮은 치료비 18.1% 순이었으며 반면에 보건지소를 이용하지 않는 이유는 전문의의 부재 20.2%, 치료의 미비 19.2%, 시설 및 장비의 14.7% 순이었다. 4. 보건지소 이용자의 이용시 불충분한 점으로는 치료내용의 제한 40.7%, 신뢰감 부족 22.5%, 교통불편 13.4% 순이었다. 5. 다변량 분석결과 보건지소 이용과 관련된 요인으로는 교육수준이 유의한 변수였다. 6. 주민이 인지한 보건지소에서 향후 시행하여야 할 중점업무는 노인질환관리, 예방보건서비스 순이었다. 이상의 결과는 도시근교 보건지소가 나아가야 할 방향을 제시한 것으로 향후 보건정책개발을 위한 기본자료로서 가치가 높다고 사료된다.

• 대한간호
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.71-91
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• 1996

The objectives of thes study were to identify the need for equipment development in nursing, and to determine the priorities for that development. The study was descriptive study done between March 2 and May 30, 1995, in which the subjects, including 421 patients, 223 family members, and 198 nurses from neurosurgery, orthopedic, rehabilitation medicine, internal medicine and intensive care units of nine general hospitals in Seoul, completed a questionnarie developed by the research team. The questionnaire consisted of 35 open and closed questions. Data was analyzed using frequencies and percentages. The results ware summarized as follows: 1) The average age of the nurses was 27.9 years, 48% of the patients were between 20 and 40 years of age, and 17% were over 60. The average lingth of experience for the nurse subjects was four years five months with 36.9%. having over five years experience. The most frequent diagnoses of patients were spinal disc(35.9%), internal medicine disease(26.0%), cerebral vascular accident(16.6%) and spinal cord injury(10%) 2) Many of the nurses(96.4%) reported deficiencies with existing equipment and 96.5% of the nurses, but only 79.8% of the patients, nurses' time. Further, 82.3% of the nurses and 75.8% of the patients felt that the development of new equipment would lead to a decrease in the cost of nursing care. 3) Nurses felt that the greatest areas of inconvenience were patient feeding(71.7%), hygiene(71.2%), caring for a patient confined to bed(70.7%), patient clothing(67.2%), mobility transfers(63.5%) and urinary elimination(52.0%). However, patients and family members listed the following as being the most inconvenient: urinary elimination(58.7%), Hygiene(50.5), feeding(48.4%), mobility transfers(47.1%) and bed care(45.2%). 4) Generally the nurses listed more inconveniences and patients and family members listed more demands for the development of equipment. These included utensils with large handles, and regulators for tube feedings; mattresses that provide for automatic position change and massage, which have patient controlled levers and a place for bed pan insertion; automatic lifts or transfer from bed to wheelchair; equipment to facilitate washing and oral hygiene as well as equipment that will allow patients with spinal cord injuries easy access to showers; a bed pan/urinal for women that is comfortable and effective from which urine can be measured and disposed of easily; disposable dressing sets and tracheostomy care sets and a convenient way of measuring changes in wound size; a safe delivery system for oxygen, a variety of mask sizes and better control of humidity, tracheal material than at present, as well as a communication system for patients with tracheostomies; clothing that will allow access to various parts of the body for treament or assessment without patients having to remove all of their clothing; and finally a system that will allow the patient to control lighting, telephones and pagers. Priority areas for equipment development reported by the nurses were, urinary elimination(58. 7%), hygiene(50.5%), feeding(48.4%), mobility transfers(47..1%), bowel elimination(40.8%). Those reported by the patients family members were feeding(71.7%), hygiene(70.0%), bedcare(70.7%), clothing(67.2%), mobility transfers(63.6%), urinary elimination(52.9%) and bowel elimination(50.5%) Altogether, nurses, patients and family members listed the following as priorities; clothing (178), bed care(144), urinary elimination(92), environment(81), hygiene(70). Further, a health professional forum listed urinary elimination, oxygen delivery, medication delivery, mobility transfers, bed care and hygiene in that order as priority areas. From this study it can be concluded that the first need is to develop equipment that will address the problems of urinary elimination. To do (l)This nurses who are interested in equipment development should organize an equipment development team to provide a forum for discussion and production of equipment for nursing.