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The Public's Response to Communication between a Terminal Cancer Patient and Physicians: A Qualitative Study of Three Sets of Online News Comments (한 말기 암환자와 의사와의 의사소통에 대한 대중의 반응: 3개의 온라인 기사 댓글에 대한 질적 연구)

  • Park, Song Yi;Park, Kyung Hye
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.240-249
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    • 2022
  • This study explored the public's response to an incident involving publicity about how physicians broke bad news to a terminal cancer patient by analyzing 1,960 comments from three online news websites that reported on this event using Braun and Clarke's theme analysis methods. Three themes and 10 subthemes emerged from the public's responses to the way the physicians broke the bad news. Theme 1 (a physician is a person who tells the facts) contained the following subthemes: physicians are responsible for delivering facts, but it is a matter of consideration for patients to deliver bad news to them, empathy and consolation should be expected from people other than physicians, and physicians who say what patients want to hear are cheaters. Theme 2 (there is a problem with physicians) included the following subthemes: the physicians' empathy or personality and problems with their communication methods. Theme 3 (there are obstacles to communication with dying patients) had the following subthemes: physicians become emotionally dull and find it very stressful to break bad news, giving hope to dying patients can lead to medical disputes, and empathy and consolation are also costly. When breaking bad news, the physicians delivered factual information, but they did so inappropriately, and emotional support for the patient was insufficient. In medical communication education, it is necessary to emphasize training in emotional support. In the medical field, an environment should be created where physicians can communicate as they have learned.

Global Medical Service Industry Marketing Establishment Plan through AHP analysis- Focusing on International Medical Service Policy in Goyang

  • Yu, Tae Gyu
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.122-127
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    • 2020
  • After the THAAD crisis, Goyang city's Global Medical Service performance is showing a sharp decline compared to other cities and provinces. In particular, the contraction of participants who can create policy outcomes such as Medical Institutions and Attracting companies has emerged as the biggest problem. Therefore, Goyang City wanted to derive effective marketing policies and establish marketing policies according to their priorities in order to prevent the deaths of the future patient visitor market as well as performance. In order to examine such policy needs more closely, this paper reviewed the Global Medical Service policies of Goyang City based on AHP analysis, and derived a ranking of 28 major policies and preferred policies for each participant. In the future, Goyang City is expected to derive major policy effects by applying the results of this study to the establishment of marketing policies through customized policies for each medical institution type and Patient attraction company.

A Study on Design of Medical Advice Support System in Emergency using Agent System (에이전트를 활용한 응급의료지도 지원시스템 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Hwan
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.263-278
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    • 2010
  • Emergency Medical Service(EMS) requires a system that supports the communication between emergency medical technicians (EMT)s and the doctor in the emergency department. Because the rapid triage and on-site treatment of patients need doctor's medical advice. However, a system to assist the doctor assign for medical advice does not exist in Korea. This paper suggests a medical advice support system that focuses on appropriate doctor assign and real-time communication among the ambulance, the Emergency Medical Information Center (EMIC), and the doctor using an agent system. We expect that the system can help to solve the problems affecting prehospital EMS and improve its general quality.

A Comparative Study of Communication Type and Stress Coping Style between Hwabyung Patients Group and Non-Hwabyung Patients Group (화병군과 비화병군의 의사소통 유형 및 스트레스 대처 방식 비교 연구)

  • Choi, Yoon-Hee;Jin, Mu-Kyoung;Kim, Bo-Kyung
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.365-382
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: Interpersonal stress is a major cause and aggravating factor of Hwabyung. The purpose of this study was to compare communication type and stress coping style between the Hwabyung patients group and non-Hwabyung patients group. Methods: The total number of study participants was 101. Based on the Hwabyung symptom scale, the study participants were divided into Hwabyung patients group (30 patients) and non-Hwabyung patients group (43 patients; control group), and the others were excluded from the study . All included patients were administered the Virginia Satir’s communication type questionnaire and stress coping scale based on Folkman & Lazarus’s theory. The independent t-test was used to determine the statistical significance between the features of communication types and stress coping styles in each group. In addition, Spearman correlation analysis was used to identify the relationship between communication types and stress coping styles. Results and Conclusions: 1. Communication types differed significantly between the Hwabyung patients group and non-Hwabyung patients group. 2. Hwabyung patients scored significantly higher in each dysfunctional communication type than functional communication type. Scores of placating stance and super-reasonable stance, which were subtypes of dysfunctional communication type, were high in the Hwabyung patients group. The non-Hwabyung patients group scored the highest in Congruent stance, classified as functional communication type. 3. Stress coping style was not significantly different between the two groups.

Radiation risk perception and its associated factors among residents living near nuclear power plants: A nationwide survey in Korea

  • Sung, Hyoju;Kim, Jung Un;Lee, Dalnim;Jin, Young Woo;Jo, Hyemi;Jun, Jae Kwan;Park, Sunhoo;Seo, Songwon
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.1295-1300
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    • 2022
  • There has been increased interest in researching risk perception of radiation to implement successful risk communication, particularly given the recent worldwide nuclear policy movement regarding nuclear energy. This study aimed to investigate characteristics of risk perception among residents living near normally operating nuclear power plants in South Korea by identifying factors associated with risk perception. A survey was conducted with face-to-face interviews for 1200 residents aged 20e84 years by gender- and age-stratified random sampling. Risk perception was associated with trust perception in nuclear safety, but was not highly correlated with benefit perception for utilizing nuclear power. Relatively high risk perception was observed in women, older age groups, and residents not having experience of nuclear-related education or work. This association remained after adjusting for other factors including benefit perception, trust perception, and psychological distress. In addition to these individual characteristics, risk perception was also associated with a residential district's own unique context, indicating that a strategy of risk communication should be developed differently for residents facing nuclear-related circumstances. Given that risk perception can be changed, depending on social values such as safety culture and economic setting, further studies are required to understand the changing characteristics of radiation risk perception.

Implementation of Medical Diagnostic Information System and Conformance Test of Medical Image in Mobile Environment (모바일 환경에서 의료 진단 정보 시스템의 구현 및 의료 영상의 적합성 평가)

  • Cho, Chung-Ho;Kim, Gwang-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.713-720
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    • 2015
  • As the hand-held mobile devices are widely used, they are recently coming into convergence with medical diagnostic systems. Furthermore, the wireless mobile Internet and the various kinds of communication devices are rapidly coming into wide use converging with medical technology. The mobile communication environments can make people get more health care services beyond space and time. In this paper, we implement and evaluate the mobile client and the medical diagnostic information server for transmitting, searching and updating the medical diagnostic information. The DICOM CT image and the compressed JPEG 2000 CT image are statistically evaluated by t-test performance whether those images are clinically appropriate. In the case of the DICOM CT image, we realize that the average value is relatively more appropriate to the clinical diagnosis than the JPEG 2000 CT image.

Medical Service with Design (의료 서비스와 디자인)

  • Choi, Won-Jae
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.473-479
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    • 2016
  • In connection with medical care, designs have been developed by forming relationships, typically supporting Visual Communication Design, Product Design and Environment Design healthcare environment aesthetically pleasing and convenient. However, in recent designs, expertise has increased, new areas specialized are merged with various areas and academic disciplines and subdivided. In addition, due to the development of technology, the design has been continuously changing, creating a new form of model by fusing with various industries, academics and services. Recognizing the changes and developments of these designs, we are promoting research on utilization of design in medical services, we can create a new value by getting out of design that we have limitedly used in areas of traditional design I will try to know about developing into a design.

Development of Efficient Order Communication and Pharmacy Supporting System for Traditional Korean Medicine (효율적인 한의 처방조제지원시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Chul;Kim, Sang-Kyun;Jang, Hyun-Chul;Kim, An-Na;Kim, Ik-Tae;Song, Mi-Young
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.127-133
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to develop the order communication system for Traditional Korean Medicine(TKM) which can support prescribing decisions and provide the toxicological information. The relative vulnerability of the infrastructure of TKM has made us start the study. We carried out the benchmarking for TKM charting solution firstly, and then designed the intelligent search and supporting method for prescription decisions. We developed of the medical herbs database and the web-based order communication program which can be used in medical field actually. This system supplies a various functions to oriental medical doctors such as management for prescription history, search for herb's effects, generating prescriptions, inventory management, alerting of toxicity and taboo, guideline for taking medicine, and so on. The design and implementation process has been described in this research. We expect that this system will play an important role in electronic medical record(EMR) or electronic health record(EHR) binding diagnosis and management functions.