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Evidence of a Broken Healthcare Delivery System in Korea: Unnecessary Hospital Outpatient Utilization among Patients with a Single Chronic Disease Without Complications

This study aims to estimate the volume of unnecessarily utilized hospital outpatient services in Korea and quantify the total cost resulting from the inappropriate utilization. The analysis included a sample of 27,320,505 outpatient claims from the 2009 National Inpatient Sample database. Using the...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jin Yong, Jo, Min-Woo, Yoo, Weon-Seob, Kim, Hyun Joo, Eun, Sang Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4248577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25469056
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2014.29.12.1590