• 의료법학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.217-260
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• 2013

In connection to the civil liability of the medical malpractice, plaintiff and courts are solving the medical disputes with theory of the liability based on tort law. because contract law does not enact the right of claim of solatium and a plaintiff's lawyer and courts hesitate to use contract law. Medical treatment of doctor is main debt in medical contract and its in-complete performance gives rise to the violations of human's life, body and health. Consequently a breach of medical contract leads to violations of person-al rights. These violations spring from liability of contract as well as tort and damages from them are recognized based on medical contract law. A duty of explanation of doctor is a independent and appendant debt to the treatment debt. However its breach provokes violations of human's life, body and health as well as a right self-determination. Therefore consolation money claim should be recognized. In case of the violation of patient's life, body and health, patient's family al-so can demand consolation money due to the violation of their's own mental pain. However in case of the violation of only patient's self-determination without informed concent, they can not demand it by reason of the violation of patient's self-determination. But by reason of the violation of patient's life, body and health that were recognized by proximate causal relation between violation of duty of explanation and abd execution, they can do.

• 의료법학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.69-118
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• 2007

In providing general medical treatments, the medical service contract between the patient and the doctor is the mutually responsible onerous contract. However, the nature of the mutually assumed contract standings of the patient and the doctor has been changing since the implementation of the national health insurance program. For instance, besides the cases of beyond excessive medical charges and medical negligence, if the doctor charged for his/her medical treatments violating the post-treatment/nursing cover criteria, the overpaid medical charge, regardless of being collected with the patient's consent, has to be refunded back to the patient. Medically needed aspects, treatment results, and unfair benefits favoring the patient are not at all taken into consideration in the health insurance scheme. This makes it easier for patients to get refunds for their share of the medical payments by involving the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service or the National Health Insurance Corporation, without engaging in civil law suits (for reimbursement claim) against doctors. In other words, the doctor's responsibility to provide medical treatments and the patient's responsibility to pay for the medical treatment provided within the contractual realm are being demolished by the administrational arbitration of the National Health Insurance system. The basic rights of medical service providers, and the patient's right to choose are as important constitutional rights, as the National Health Insurance program, which is essential in the social welfare system. Furthermore, the development of the medical fields should not be prevented by the National Health Insurance system. If the medical treatment services can be divided into necessary treatments, general treatments, and high quality treatments, the National Health Insurance is supposed to guarantee the necessary and general treatments to provide medical treatments equally to all the insured with limited financial resources. However, for the high quality treatments, it is recommended that they should not be interfered by the National Health Insurance system, and that they should be left to the private contract between the patient and the doctor.

• 의료법학
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.81-109
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 민법전에 의료계약에 관한 규정을 신설하기 위한 논의의 과정에서 의료관련 법률의 진료거부금지 규정과 의료계약에서 계약자유의 원칙의 관계를 검토하였다. 그 내용은 다음과 같다. 의료법의 진료거부금지 규정이 의료계약 체약의 자유를 제한하는 것은 아니다. 환자의 요청에 따른 진료개시와 진료개시 후 의학적 판단에 기초한 의료내용의 결정과 진료비에 대한 협의 하에 체결되는 의료계약의 성립은 구별된다. 반면 진료거부금지 규정으로 의료계약 해지의 자유는 제한된다. 의료계약은 전문가인 의료인과 자신의 생명·신체에 대한 처분을 전문가에게 맡긴 환자의 신뢰에 기초한 것이기 때문에 신뢰가 깨지면 계약을 해지할 수 있을 것이다. 그러나 계약의 해지로 환자의 생명·신체에 불이익을 주어서는 안 되기 때문에, 의료계약의 해지에는 일정한 제한을 두어야 할 것이다. 의료계약의 체약을 강제하고 정당한 사유가 있는 때에만 계약을 해지할 수 있도록 하는 것이 현재 의료법의 태도이다. 민법전의 의료계약에 관한 규정에서는 의료계약 해지의 자유를 인정하되, 일정한 경우에 계약의 해지를 제한하는 방향을 제시하였다. 계약의 해지를 위한 정당한 사유가 인정되고, 환자가 다른 의료인으로부터 진료를 받을 수 없는 등 불리한 시기가 아닌 경우에 계약의 해지를 인정한다. 의료법의 진료거부금지의무 위반에 대한 처벌규정을 삭제하고, 계약법의 문제로 옮겨와야 할 것이다. 진료를 거부한 행위 자체에 대해서는 국민건강보험법의 요양급여거절의무에 따른 행정제재로 규율하여야 할 것이다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-30
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• 2009

Korean medical fee contract system between the insurer and healthproviders was introduced in 2000. However, a continuous discord among contracting parties concerned and an irrational operation of an arbitration committee of Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs (MIHWAF) have made it difficult for them to reach to an agreement over last 8 years. The purpose of this study is to observe the current problems of contract system from the view of health insurance law and actual examples. Furthermore, I examined the of breakdown of negotiation by analyzing the eligibility of contracting parties, rationality of Resource Based Relative Value System (RBRVS) and contracting method and fairness of arbitration method in case of negotiation rupture. The results were as follows: First, since the introduction of medical fee contract system, there has been a problem in that both the president of National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) and health care provider association have not held strong negotiation power. Second, the frequent changes and notifications of Relative Value Units (RVUs) without any mutual consent between the insurer and provider association negatively have influenced the conversion factors and finally hindered the agreement of contract. Third, a current process that the conversion factors are mediated and determined at the arbitration committee of MIHWAF in the case of contract breakdown between contracting parties has some flaw in that the irrational composition of committee provoked the lack of fairness and objectivity of mediation. Fourth, we can not prospect a satisfactory outcome of arbitration committee because the mediation always has failed to proceed smoothly due to boycott of both committee members from insurer and providers over last 8 years. As a result, we have to make an every effort to resolve problems mentioned above and then dream of an advanced national health insurance system.

• 의료법학
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.89-115
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• 2021

우리나라의 의료전달체계는 의료법과 국민건강보험법에 근거하고 있으며, 한정된 의료자원을 효율적으로 운영하기 위하여 질환의 중증도에 따라 의료기관을 이용하도록 구분되어 있다. 상급종합병원에서 이미 중증 질환에 대한 치료가 이루어져 병원급 의료기관으로 전원 또는 자택으로 퇴원이 가능한 경우 의료기관에서 환자에 대하여 의료계약을 해지할 수 있는지가 문제된다. 우리나라 법원의 입장으로는 해당 의료기관에서 더 이상의 입원치료가 불필요한 경우 의료기관의 의료계약 해지권을 인정하는 판결과 그러한 경우에도 의료기관의 의료계약 해지권을 부정하는 판결이 병존하고 있다. 한편 미국 판결 중에는 급성 치료를 담당하는 의료기관에서 입원 중인 환자에게 더 이상 급성 치료가 필요하지 않는 경우에 전문간호시설 등으로 전원을 인정하는 판결들이 있다. 의료자원이 한정되어 있고 의료기관의 계약 해지권이 제한된 취지가 국민의 생명권, 건강권에 대한 위험을 방지하기 위한 목적임을 고려할 때 해당 의료기관에서 치료가 종결되어 환자에게 더 이상 신체적 위해가 없음이 확인된 경우에는 다시 원칙으로 돌아가 의료기관의 계약 해지권을 인정할 필요가 있다.

• 의료법학
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.139-161
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• 2017

이 글은 대법원 2016.1.28. 선고 2015다9769 판결의 검토를 목적으로 한다. 이 사건 연명의료 중단에 관한 이전의 판례에서 대법원은 객관적 요건으로 회생불가능한 사망의 단계와 주관적 요건으로 환자의 동의가 충족되면 의료계약이 해지된다고 보았다. 그러나 환자의 동의는 의료계약 해지에 관한 동의가 아니다. 환자의 의료행위에 대한 동의는 법률행위가 아니다. 그것은 사실행위이다. 만약 연명 의료의 중단에 관한 환자의 추정적 의사가 의료계약의 해지의 의사라면, 의료계약은 연명의료 중단에 관한 소 제기시에 종료하여야 한다. 그런데 대상판결은 의료계약이 일부 해지되었다고 하면서도 진료비채무는 연명의료 허용에 관한 판결이 확정된 때부터 면제된다고 하였다. 이는 논리적으로 맞지 않다. 연명의료의 중단이 허용되면 의료급부 제공이 불가능해지기 때문에 그 부분 진료채무가 면제된다. 급부의 불능은 연명치료 중단에 관한 확정판결이 있는 때에 확정된다. 따라서 연명의료 중단에 관한 확정판결이 있은 때부터 연명의료에 대한 진료비채무가 면제된다고 한 대상판결의 결론은 타당하다. 다만 그 근거는 의료계약의 일부해지가 아니라 일부불능이다.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2003

The purposes of this study were: a) to develop the a quality measurement tool for the contract-managed hospital foodservice, and b) to evaluate their performance with the developed quality measurement tool, and c) to verify the reliability and validity of the quality measurement tool. The developed quality measurement tool comprised two parts, which were foodservice management and medical nutrition care service. The foodservice management part was classified into six functional categories which were Menu, Procurement and Storage, Production and Distribution, Facility and Utility, Sanitation and Safety, and Management and Evaluation. The medical nutrition care service part indicated the medical nutrition care provided. Quality measurement tool had 91 standards and 324 indicators. The quality measurement tools were distributed to the hospital foodservice manager employed by the foodservice company. The 324 indicators were measured by foodservice manager on the 5-Likert-type scales, and then adapted to a 100 point scale. The SPSS Ver. 11.0 was used for statistical analysis. The categories whose scores were evaluated as being high were Procurement', General Sanitation', Personal sanitation' and Waste' and the categories whose scores were evaluated as being low were Diet Order Manual', Standard Recipe', Appropriateness (Facility and Utility)', Check (Facility and Utility)'and Information Management'. All the categories of medical nutrition service were evaluated as having seriously low scores. Therefore, it was necessary for the contract-managed hospital foodservice to improve its performance in the area of medical nutrition care service. For the verification of the developed quality measurement tool, the reliability obtained by calculating Cronbach's α was 0.8747, and the content validity was also proved by scrutiny of the modification of the Professional group's techniques. (Korean J Community Nutrition 8(3) : 319∼326, 2003)

• 보험의학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.3-16
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• 1985

Necessity of life insurance is stronger for people who feel some anxiety of their health. However, in fact, it is not permitted for them to get a contract, because life insurance stands on the mutual benefit system. Life insurance must be impartial to all applicants. However, it is very reasonable that an applicant, who has high medical impairment like heart infarction or cancer, is rejected, to have a contract by underwriting decision. On the other hand, if his medical impairment is not so severe, we might accept his application by giving some restriction. Numericalratingsystem by hunter-rogers gave us one of solutions to this problem. We can keep impartiality by using more restrictive decision, in order that we demand additional payment to the impairment applicant according to his mortality. We call this system as substandard life insurance. In this system we need detail information about impairments of applicants in order to decide the condition of substandard risks. Therefore, medical examiners are required to have high diagnostic technique.

• 보험의학회지
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• 제23권
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• pp.16-31
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• 2004

• 의료법학
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.123-163
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• 2014

As results of analyzing judicial precedents about infection in hospitals in connection with mistakes and causality in medical litigations shows that the Mitigation of Law Principles To Prove responsibility in medical litigation has not been able to play its role compared to its intended purposes. And Major sentiment from those judgments is that a mistake can't be proved only by the fact that certain infection in hospital occurred in connection with hospital infection. Therefore, the number of indirect facts to deny estimation is overwhelmingly high. Like this, especially for hospital infection which is difficult to prove indirect facts themselves to estimate mistake, major sentiment from those judgments have a problem that impute sharing of losses caused by hospital infection to patient. In accordance with the Principles of equitable and proper sharing of losses, it's required to prepare legal interpretation and theoretical methods to largely mitigate patient's responsibility to prove medical mistakes compared to other medical litigations in connection with existing Mitigation of Law Principles To Prove responsibility and conventional theory of estimation. In connection with this, the results of review that duty of safety management in hospital infection cases can be the base of conversion of proving responsibility, the duty that prevent hospital infection, corresponding the duty of safety management in hospital infection is not conventional duty of safety management based on duty of good faith but secondary obligation of medical contract. The breach of duty preventing hospital infection is the violation of medical contract, but there is no logical necessity that convert proving responsibility from the obligation of contract itself. Therefore, the duty of preventing hospital infection from the obligation of medical contract, corresponding the duty of safety management in hospital infection cases cannot be the base of conversion of proving responsibility alone. But, it's still required to conversion of proving responsibility in hospital infection, we need further studies on cases of Germany which applies legal estimation of proving responsibilities in hospital infection.