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KMID : 0379720150290030412
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2015 Volume.29 No. 3 p.412 ~ p.425
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Trends of Research on the Case Management of Medicaid Beneficiaries in Korea
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김순옥:Kim Soon-Ok
조정현:Cho Jeong-Hyun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to understand the trend in research by analyzing previous studies related to the case management of Medicaid and to explore the direction of future research.
Methods: Thirty three studies conducted from January 2003 to June 2015 were analyzed according to characteristics of researchers and subjects, research methods, measurable variables, and key words.
Results: Of the studies analyzed, 69.7% were conducted on Medicaid beneficiaries, and 65.6% were conducted on the group of high risk for over medical utilization. The mainly used research design was a survey study design, which
was 51.5% of them, followed by experimental (24.2%), and qualitative (12.1%) study design. Most frequently measured variables were medical utilization (62.5%), needs for case management (41.7%), and health status (25.0%). The topics most frequently studied were related to medical utilization, effect of case management, self-care, and program
development in Medicaid beneficiaries and job and socio-psychological factors in case managers.
Conclusion: The future direction of nursing research in Medicaid case management is to be vitalized through the expansion of the research population, and concretization and diversification of the research topics. In addition, conduct of further studies on intervention strategies and contents for improving quality of case management program is also needed.
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KEYWORD
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Medicaid, Case management, Research, Trends
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