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KMID : 0371019970300040884
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1997 Volume.30 No. 4 p.884 ~ p.892
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Performance Evaluation of Emergency Medical Center
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Kang Chul-Whan
Kim Yoon
Lee Pyoung-Soo
Kwon Young-Dae
Kim Chang-Yup
Shin Young-Soo
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Abstract
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Currently, there are 100 community emergency centers which expect to provide professional emergency care like Level 1 trauma centers in U.S.A. To evaluate performance of emergency centers, most studies have been widely adopted death rate based methods such as Trauma and Injury Severity Score(TRISS) and At Severity Characterization of Trauma(ASCOT). However, these methods are only applicable in situation where registration process of trauma patients is well established. Therefore, an alternative method should be applied to evaluate performance of emergency centers in Korea which does not have well-developed registration scheme. This study aims to develop new performance measures which are applicable to Korea and evaluate performance of 35 community emergency centers through new measures.
The new measures are included that `W-statistic´; death rate calculated on the basis of International Classification based Injury Severity Score(ICISS), and´, `the degree of severityrate of severe trauma patients of each emergency medical centers.
The study results can be summarized as follows. First, about 34% of sample emergency centers show they provide proper care in terms of their function. Second, tertiary hospitals, university hospitals, and hospitals located in Seoul show higher severity degree of patients and lower severity-adjusted death rate.
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KEYWORD
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ICISS, SRR, W-statistic, performance evaluation, emergency center
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