• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제63권4호
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• pp.387-391
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• 2007

섬유화 세로칸염은 드문 양성질환으로 종격동 조직 내에 국소적이거나 광범위한 심한 섬유화성 병변을 유발하고 세로칸 내 장기들을 침범하거나 압박하여 증상이나 증후를 나타내는 질환이다. 그러나 저자들은 세로칸의 침범이 거의 없으면서 상대정맥 주위에 발생한 아주 국소적인 병변에 의하여 상대정맥증후군을 유발한, 혈관종양과 감별이 필요하였던 국소적 섬유화 세로칸염 1예를 경험하였기에 보고하는 바이다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.17-39
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• 2005

Social solidarity, equity in financing, and efficiency in administration have been core issues in the development of Korean health insurance reformation since 1988. This study is to investigate the trend of administrative cost in Korean National Health Insurance from various aspects. For the analysis of administrative cost, the expenditures of each insurance society and the National Health Insurance Corporation are divided into 4 items of (1) insurance benefit, (2) administrative cost, (3) an agency provision accounts, (4) other expenses, and then they are reorganized. The analyses based on 5 types of the health insurance administrative cost showed that efficiency in administration has been improved generally. We, however, should consider qualitative aspects such as customer's satisfaction with health insurance administration, prompt service, control of unjust expenditure (unjust claims), and provision of medical service including health consultation in assessing efficiency of administration. And, in order to connect the administrative costs of health insurance with efficiency, we need to give a fundamentally new definition, which can contain elaborateness of expenditure in details including the structure and evaluation method of administrative costs. It may be necessary to develop new indicators or analyzing methods hereafter.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제69권4호
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• pp.298-302
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• 2010

Scedosporium apiospermum, the anamorph of Pseudallescheria boydii, is a ubiquitous saprophytic fungus. S. apiospermum can cause life-threatening infections usually in immunocompromised patients or after near-drowning incidents. Here, we report the first case of disseminated infection caused by S. apiospermum after near-drowning in Korea. A 44-year-old healthy man developed aspiration pneumonia, followed by multiple brain abscesses, and endopthalmitis, after a near-drowning incident in a septic tank. S. apiospermum infection was diagnosed on the 33rd day after the incident had occurred. The patient died from the progressive renal failure 255 days after incident, although he had been treated with voriconazole.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제64권5호
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• pp.369-373
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• 2008

결절성경화증은 유전성 신경피부 증후군으로 피부, 뇌, 신장 등의 여러 장기에 과오종을 형성하는 질환이다. 결절성경화증의 폐 침범은 드물지만 다발성 미세결절의 소견을 보이는 경우, 정확한 진단을 위해서는 고해상 흉부 전산화 단층 촬영 및 조직 검사가 필요하겠으며, 다발성 미세결절폐세포증식증을 감별 진단으로 고려해야 할 것이다. 이 질환의 임상적 의의 등 아직 알려진 것이 많지 않으나 현재까지의 보고로는 특별한 치료는 없으며 예후는 좋은 것으로 알려져 있다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제58권6호
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• pp.614-618
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• 2005

저자들은 자궁근종으로 자궁적출술을 시행받은 과거력이 있는 35세 여자환자가 우연히 발견된 폐의 다발성 결절을 주소로 내원한 후, 폐 생검을 통하여 양성 전이성 폐 평활근종을 진단받고, 이후 개흉술을 통한 전 결절 제거술을 성공적으로 시행 받은 드문 1예를 경험하였고, 이는 국내에서는 처음 시도된 바이기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.244-252
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate the overall operations of National Hospital Food service after it was benefited by National Health Insurance (NHI). The survey was conducted between July and August, 2007. Among questionnaires mailed to 2,558 medical care institutions, 2,090 returned (81%) questionnaires were analyzed by descriptive statistics, $x^2$-test and ANOVA using the SPSS 13.0. The general foodservice characteristic of medical care institutions were as follows. The type of foodservice operations were 'self-operated' (86.9%), 'contracted' (10.5%) and 'Both' (2.6%). Only 6.4% of medical care institutions provided 'hospital food menu not benefited by NHI'. The number of dietitians and cook for medical care institutions were 1.1 and 1.0, respectively. The cost of a general diet meal was 4,205 won and therapeutic diet meal was 4,434 won. The overall operations of hospital foodservice were different depending on the types of medical care institution. After hospital foodservice was benefited by NHI, the overall quality of hospital foodservice including manpower, facilities, and environment was improved. The future direction of hospital foodservice should 1) differentiate the cost of hospital foodservice by the types of medical care institution, 2) increase in co-payment, and 3) provide same service with equal expenses in each party as medical aid or NHS beneficiary.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.127-138
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• 2007

Objectives: This study aims to examine if the follow-up management service by National Health Insurance (NHI) for person at health risk leads to significant modification of the lifestyle and change of health status. Methods: Of persons who underwent health screening and were classified as having health risks after periodic health screening by NHI in 2003, persons who took the follow-up management service were selected as case group and persons who took no service were selected as control group. The DW database of NHI was used to explore the effect of the follow-up management service on the modification of health status and lifestyle. Chi-square tests were conducted with SAS 9.1 to examine the differences of health promotion effect between case vs. control group. Results: It was shown that of lifestyle behaviors, only exercise was significantly improved for case group compared with control group as the effect of the follow-up management service by NHI (2.98%p) (p<.0001). Further, morbidity rate for control group was 2% higher than that of case group (p <.0001), which indicates that persons who received the follow-up management service better maintained their health significantly than persons who did not. Conclusions: The present study shows that the appropriate follow-up management services need to be provided for maximizing potential effect of periodic health screening by NHI.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.53-65
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• 2009

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the prenatal heath care utilization and expenditure among pregnant women. Method: This was a 5-month follow-up study using a stratified sampling and the data were drawn from the "nationwide claim database of Korean National Health Insurance Corporation". Result: This study found that pregnant women were first diagnosed with pregnancy when they were 7.1 weeks pregnant, received 12.7 times of prenatal examinations and 10.6 times of ultrasonogram. It was revealed that 67.5% of the subjects continued to receive prenatal care at the same medical institutions from the diagnosis of pregnancy to the delivery. The study also showed that the total expenditure of prenatal care per pregnant woman was 700,000 Korean Won (KRW) on average and the insurance coverage rate stood at only 20%. Pregnant women living in metropolitan area spent more on prenatal healthcare expenditure than those who living in medium-sized city or rural area. Conclusion: The results of this study implies that the government needs to provide pregnant women with continuous support by increasing health insurance coverage for prenatal care. Especially, it is considered to provide more support to the pregnant women residing in medically underserved areas.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.104-127
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• 2010

To vitalize the link program of Korean long-term care insurance system to community-based services for non-eligible people, we analysed the claim data from the Korean National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), and conducted a questionnaire survey to charging employees of elderly service department at local governments. The subjects were all 81,377 people, 57,454 of them were arranged to community-based services. The link program was more necessary among the missed subjects rather than the arranged people due to the need for physical or psychological assistance. By the result of the survey to the local government employees, 59.5% of subjects responded their proportion of link service was over 10% and under 20%, and 54.3% of them responded their job boundary are not clear. Major type of linking was notification the subject list to local government, 91.4%; proportion of periodical notification on the status of their service link were 57.1%, only 7.1% were followed to manage after the link. Difficult factors at the link process were pointed out the overload by other side work, deficiency of resources, rigidity of priority of link, and so on. Considering these results, to vitalize the community-based services to the non-eligible people, it may be essential the active participation of the subjects, construction of parts working in coordination among the institutions including NHIC, local governments, and service providers; development of various services for maintenance or promotion of the non-eligible peoples' health and functional status; and active participation of institutions from the third sector, and so on.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제63권2호
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• pp.188-193
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• 2007

악성 흉수의 원인은 폐암, 유방암, 및 악성 림프종, 백혈병이 그 대부분을 차지하며 내분비 종양에 의한 악성 흉수는 매우 드물며 특히 유두상 갑상선 암에 의한 흉수는 거의 없다. 저자들은 유두상 갑상선 암이 폐 전이를 거치지 않고 유방 전이를 거쳐 흉막 전이 일으킨 것으로 보이는 1예를 경험하였기에 보고하는 바이다. 아울러 원인이 명확하지 않은 악성 흉수의 원인 감별에 유두상 갑상선 암도 고려 대상으로 할 필요가 있다고 생각한다.