• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.101-107
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• 1999

Background : In order to improve the quality of life of dying patients, they need to receive not only the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care, but also systematic and continuous care to die with dignity. However, no adequate medical services are available for these terminal cancer patients. We studied their behavior patterns of health care utilization to understand more of their medical and social needs. Methods : We investigated 108 bereaved families through the telephone interview with structured questionnaires. They were randomly selected through the retrospective chart review of the terminal patients who passed away due to cancer. Results : Most of the terminal cancer patients received their care from proper medical services including admission to hospital (45.4%), outpatient clinic (22.2%), emergency room (16.7%), and oriental medicine (12.0%). But during the terminal phase of their illness, 32.4% of patients never received medical care including oriental medicine, and 28.7% received alterative natural care. 26 bereaved families (24.1%) pointed out the indifference of medical staff as a problem receiving proper hospital care, and 22 (20.4%) emphasized emotional strain of their helplessness with the patients' suffering as a problem of caring at home. Over 90% suggested availability of continuous care, hospice care, home care, and 24 hour telephone service to be improved. Conclusions : Due to various reasons, adequate medical care is not delivered to the terminal cancer patients in our present medical system. These problems can be approached with the establishment of proper education and medical delivery system. The role of comprehensive medical specialty cannot be overly emphasized to accomplish this most effectively.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1153-1157
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• 2012

안드로이드 기반의 스마트폰 기술의 발달에 따라 우리 생활에 다양한 변화를 가져오고 있다. 본 논문에서는 스마트폰을 기반으로 인간의 생체 정보인 맥파 및 산소포화도를 계측할 수 있는 단말기를 이용하여 환자의 상태를 모니터링 할 수 있도록 불루투스 기반의 u-헬스 케어시스템을 구현하였다. 본 논문의 구현을 통하여 불루투스를 지원하지 않고 PC에서만 모니터링 하는 의료 장비를 불루투스 모듈을 추가하여 스마트폰으로 데이터를 모니터링 할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.454-458
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• 2008

It can improve human being's life quality that all people can have more convenient medical service under pervasive computing environment. For a pervasive health care application for diabetes patient, we've implemented a health care system, which is composed of three parts. Various sensors monitor both outer and inner environment of human such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and glycemic index, etc. These sensors form zigbee based sensor network. And medical information server accumulates sensing values and performs back-end processing. To simply transfer these sensing values to a medical team is a low level's medical service. So, we've designed a new service model based on back propagation neural network for more improved medical service. Our experiments show that a proposed healthcare system can give high level's medical service because it can recognize human's context more concretely.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.329-335
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• 2007

Objectives : To identify the effects of supplemental private health insurance on health care utilization and expenditure under the mandatory National Health Insurance(NHI) system in Korea. Methods : The data were collected by the National Cancer Center in Korea. Cancer patients who were newly diagnosed with stomach (ICD code, C16), lung(C33-C34), liver (C22), colorectal cancer(C18-C20) or breast(C50) cancer were included as study subjects. Data were gathered using a structured questionnaire from face-to-face interviews, the hospital Order Communication System (OCS) and medical records. Clinical, socio-demographic and private health insurance related factors were also gathered. The differences of health care utilization and expenditure were compared between those who have private health insurance and those who do not using t-test and multivariable regression analysis. Results : Individuals with private health insurance spent larger inpatient costs than those without, but no differences were found in utilization in other service such as hospital admissions, hospital days and physician visits. Conclusions : We found that private health insurance exerts a significant effect on the health care expenditure in inpatient service. These study results can provide a rational basis to plan a national health policy regarding private health insurance. Further studies are needed to investigate the impacts of private health insurance on cancer patients' outcomes and survival rates.

• 보건의료생명과학 논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.143-154
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• 2020

본 연구는 오마하체계를 이용하여 보건소 방문간호사의 간호업무 수행도와 필요도를 조사한 서술적 조사연구이다. 방문간호사의 간호업무는 '개인위생', '통증', '약물요법', '영양', '신체활동', '위생', '수면과 휴식양상', '구강건강', '정신건강', '인지'순으로 수행도가 높았다. '성생활', '산후', '수입', '가족계획', '임신', '영성', '학대', '생식기능', '방임', '말과 언어' 순으로 간호업무 수행도가 낮았다. '성생활', '학대' '방임', '생식기능' 문제는 문제의 사정 및 적극적 개입을 위한 교육적 지원이 필요하다. '산후', '임신', '가족계획' 등의 문제는 출산지원을 위한 지역의 정책방향에 따라 방문간호사의 역량 강화가 필요하다. '수입', '주거', '지역사회자원과의 의사소통'은 보건복지 연계 및 정부와 지방자치단체의 정책적 지원이 필요하겠다. 본 연구결과는 방문간호사의 역할규명 및 역할확대를 위한 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 본다.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.188-196
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• 2007

Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate long-term care needs using RAI MDS-HC and MI-CHOICE among the disabled workers. Methods: Data were obtained from 45 personal care recipients with the disability of mental and nervous system, and analyzed using SAS 9.1 by applying t-test, ${\chi}^2$ test, or fisher's exact test. Results: Only 'bed mobility' and 'indoor ambulation' items of ADL and problem activity were statistically significant factors by the level of personal care benefit. By MICHOICE grouping, 20.0 percent of subjects belonged to nursing home group, 51.5 percent were home care service, 28.9 percent were intermittent personal care. Conclusion: Personal care services in industrial accident compensation insurance have been categorized with two groups according to level of disability. But our results could contribute to provide personal care service according to the long term care needs.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.553-564
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• 2014

Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify the expectations and perceptions of health center users as to the services. SERVQUAL scale was used for measurement of service quality. The purpose of this study is to offer baseline data for improving the quality of health care services. Methods: The subjects were users of a health center in S City in Kangwon-do; 170 people participated in this study. Results: Regarding service quality depending on general characteristics, the following results were obtained. First, there were statistically significant differences depending on the gender, purpose of visit, and satisfaction in the health center. Second, the services fell short of the expectations. Third, the quality of 'safe, accurate services' scored the highest, while 'empathy and friendliness' scored the lowest. Fourth, 'internal, external environment of the health center' scored the highest, while 'courtesy of staff' scored the lowest. There were no statistically significant differences. Conclusion: Based on the findings, the following are suggested. First, employee education should be provided for development of empathy and interaction with patients; those are the weakest areas in the health care services. Second, a system allowing patients to understand and participate in their treatment should be developed.

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.243-250
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• 2009

Purpose: This is a qualitative study to identify dimensions of long-term care hospital care quality that provide high-level medical services for long-term care patients in Korea. Methods: Service consumers and providers were interviewed, and collected data were analyzed into thesis, type and dimension. The focus group method was applied to two provider groups and individual interview was applied to two persons who had experienced a long-term care hospital. Results: The results of analyzing the consumers and providers was integrated into 8 dimensions: physical environment, staff, clinical care and nursing, multiplicity of activity program, atmosphere, interaction with family, nutrition, and quality improvement system. Conclusion: The dimensions of long-term care hospital care quality from this study can be used as a basis of quality indicators. Quantitative studies to test these dimensions are required for establishing quality management systems.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.648-652
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• 2014

기존의 IT 산업 환경은 인터넷을 중심으로 하는 멀티미디어 콘텐트 기반이었으나, 최근 센서와 통신 기술을 접목한 유비쿼터스 기술이 부각되고 있으며 이를 USN (ubiquitous sensor network)라 한다. 건강관리 분야는 USN 적용에 매우 적합한 문야의 하나로 여겨지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 USN을 기반으로 영유아의 건강과 안전을 관리하기 위해 스마트 센서를 이용한 baby care 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템은 낙상 감지 센서, 울음 감지 센서, 발열 감지 센서와 정보 전달을 위한 블루투스 네트워크로 구성되었다. 구현된 시스템은 시현을 통해 실효성을 확인하였다.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.331-339
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• 1997

With increases in senior citizens and changes in family structure, the need for long-term care system for elderly is increasing, however, the capacity and environment of Korean facilities are very limited. Health and nutritional status of long-term care residents are worse than free-living elderly. In this study, general food service management and health care practices in long-term care systems were investigated. Questionnaire were sent to the directors of all 162 long-term care facilities in Korea and 81 returned the complete answers. The results showed 1) There are slow but steady increase in long-term care systems in Korea, however, the capacity is far from adequate. Less than 10,000 elderly were resided in the facilities. Most of the systems were free-nursing homes and supported by the goverment. Staffing structure revealed that most of the facilities had a director, a secretary, nurses, but only 21% of the systerm hired a dietitian. It showed the shortage of nurses, physical therapists, and dietitians. Therefore, food purchasing, menu planning, food delivery, and the other food service management processes are handled by non-professionals, such as director, secretary, or cooks. Modified fool frequency questionnaire were used to get the frequencies of each food items used in menu and a menu-analysis was made on the one-day menu provided by the facilities. The results showed relatively satisfactory in nutrients content and food frequencies., however, this was about what was used in menu, not what was eaten by the residents. Therefore this results did not tell that the food intake status of individuals. In most facilities general health checkup was done on a regular basis, and had residents with various chronic degenerative diseases, such as hypertension, neuralgia, stroke, arthritis, diabetes. But the items checked on health checkup included weight, height, blood and urine tests, X-ray test, which suggested that the checkup lists should be revised to accomodate the health problem of the aged today.