Community Primary Care-Based Hypertension and Diabetes Management Program in Korea: Evaluation of Participating Patients and Doctors.

Background: This study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of a community-based primary care program focused on hypertension and diabetes in Korea.

Methods: We selected patients and doctors who participated in the community-based primary care program as study subjects from Aug 2015 to Jan 2016. Patients and physicians completed a survey, and medical records were reviewed to obtain information regarding clinical variables.

Effect of a Primary Care-Based Chronic Disease Management Program for Hypertension Patients in South Korea.

Background: Recently, the South Korean government has adopted a primary-care-based chronic disease management program as a national task. This study aimed to evaluate this program by focusing on hypertension patients and examine the effect of this program on their health.

Methods: Overall, 863 subjects who responded to a survey and 1,716 subjects in administrative data were included.

Sex Difference in the Socioeconomic Burden of Osteoporosis among South Koreans.

The prevalence of osteoporosis is increasing with the aging of the population and the socioeconomic burden. The purpose of this study was to determine the socioeconomic burden of osteoporosis in Korea. The prevalence of osteoporosis was analyzed using 2017 National Patients Sample and Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data.

Socioeconomic Burden of Disease Due to Asthma in South Korea.

This study aimed to estimate the socioeconomic burden of asthma in South Korea. The data were obtained from the National Patient Sample of 2014. The direct costs included health care and non-health care costs, and the indirect costs included loss of productivity.

Effects of Community-Based Primary Care Management on Patients With Hypertension and Diabetes.

As the prevalence of chronic diseases is continuously increasing, the socioeconomic cost of those conditions in Korea is also rising. In order to effectively manage chronic diseases, the "Community-Based Primary Care Project" was implemented from 2014 to 2016 and focused on primary medical care and physician-led chronic disease management. The purpose of this study is evaluating the effects of the project through the DID (difference in difference) model.

Spinopelvic Alignment by Different Surgical Methods in the Treatment of Degenerative Sagittal Imbalance of the Lumbar Spine.

Study Design: A retrospective comparative study.

Objective: To compare pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) and iliac fixation (ILF) without osteotomy as methods of correcting lumbar spine deformities due to degenerative sagittal imbalance (DSI) through the evaluation of the changes in spinopelvic alignment.

Summary Of Background Data: Many papers have reported the surgical results after PSO and ILF for patients with fixed adult deformities.

Burden of Disease Attributable to Secondhand Smoking in Korea.

This study aims to estimate the burden of disease (BOD) due to secondhand smoking (SHS) in Korea. SHS-related diseases were selected via systematic review. Population attributable fraction (PAF) was calculated by using standard formula.

Affecting Factors of Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Korea: Focused on Different Exposure Locations.

Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) not only can cause serious illness, but is also an economic and social burden. Contextual and individual factors of non-smoker exposure to SHS depend on location. However, studies focusing on this subject are lacking.

Perception of Lay People Regarding Determinants of Health and Factors Affecting It: An Aggregated Analysis from 29 Countries.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the perception of lay people regarding determinants of health at global level and factors affecting it.

Methods: Data was collected from International Social Survey Program (ISSP) and World Bank website. Multilevel regression analysis was done and lay people's perception regarding health behavior, environment, poverty and genes as health determinants was assessed.

Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease and Their Related Socio-Economical, Environmental and Health Behavioral Factors: Focused on Low-Middle Income Countries- A Narrative Review Article.

Background: In order to decrease the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD), social determinants for CVD risk factors have been extensively studied in developed countries. However, few studies about them have been performed in low-middle-income countries. This study describes factors related to CVD risk factors in low-middle-income countries at a national level.

Egalitarian health policy preference and its related factors in Korea: national representative sample survey.

Recently in Korea, the commercialization of health services has come to the fore, and the issue of egalitarianism/universal coverage in health is a matter for debate. This study explored the extent of Korean citizen's preference for egalitarian health policies focusing on the provision of health care service, financing and related factors. The data came from the 2011 Korean General Social Survey (KGSS) and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP).

Individual and socioeconomic contextual effects on depressive symptom in Korea: multilevel analysis of cross-sectional nationwide survey.

This study was aimed to examine the relationship between individual, socioeconomic context and depressive symptom among Korean population. Data were the Korean Community Health Survey (KCHS), a nationwide survey collected from 253 local communities including 230,715 adults aged 19 yr or over. To identify depressive symptom, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES-D) was used.

Data mining application in customer relationship management for hospital inpatients.

Objectives: This study aims to discover patients loyal to a hospital and model their medical service usage patterns. Consequently, this study proposes a data mining application in customer relationship management (CRM) for hospital inpatients.

Methods: A recency, frequency, monetary (RFM) model has been applied toward 14,072 patients discharged from a university hospital.

Selecting the best prediction model for readmission.

Objectives: This study aims to determine the risk factors predicting rehospitalization by comparing three models and selecting the most successful model.

Methods: In order to predict the risk of rehospitalization within 28 days after discharge, 11 951 inpatients were recruited into this study between January and December 2009. Predictive models were constructed with three methods, logistic regression analysis, a decision tree, and a neural network, and the models were compared and evaluated in light of their misclassification rate, root asymptotic standard error, lift chart, and receiver operating characteristic curve.