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KMID : 0387319990090030001
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
1999 Volume.9 No. 3 p.1 ~ p.20
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Analysis of influencing factors on hospital-employed physician´s income
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Park Woong-Sub
Kim Han-Joong
Sohn Myong-Sei
Park Eun-Cheol
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Abstract
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This study reviews the literature of influencing factor on hospital-employed physicians income, and it describes general distribution of hospital-employed physicians income, and analyzes influencing factor of hospital-employed physicians income.
A total of 1,795 persons responded to the mail survey, through stratified sampling by 23 branches of medical society in Korean RBRVS study. The design of the study is cross sectional study, and the unit of analysis is a physician. To examine the change of average income per month, multiple regression was used to test the change according to physicians characteristics, demographic characteristics, scale of hospital, average intensity of ordinary work, and specialty.
The major findings of this study are as follows:
1. As for physicians working in first referral hospital, the average income of neurosurgeon per month was the largest, being 1.34 times larger than that of the family physician, and that of the emergency physician was the smallest, being 0.78 times smaller than that of the family physician, but that of the ophthalmic and Orthopaedic physician was significantly larger than that of the family physician under the control of control variables. And average income per month was significantly larger for physicians who worked in Seoul metropolitan area than physicians who worked in rural area.
2. The year of physician´s career, number of average out-patients per month significantly positively associated, but the number of hospital beds and average intensity of therapy significantly negatively associated with average income per month.
3. As for physicians working in second referral hospital, the average income of the psychiatric physician per month was the largest, being 1.33 times larger than that of the family physician, and that of the emergency physician was smallest, being 0.74 times smaller than that of the family physician.´, but no significant difference was seen under the control of control variables, and average income -per´ month was significantly larger for physicians who worked in Seoul metropolitan area than physicians who worked in large municipal area.
4. The year of physician´s career and number of hospital beds significantly positively associated, but average working hours per month significantly negatively associated with average income per month.
In conclusion, the year of hospital-employed physician´s career is the largest influencing factor on hospital-employed physicians. But the difference of average income per month according to working regions and to number of hospital beds existed in employed physicians under the control of control variables. So this study has implementation that we must consider the influence of working regions and the number of hospital beds on the income of hospital-employed physicians in making policy for hospital. Being a cross-sectional study, this study can not suggest causal explanations. In the future, experiment or cohort study is needed for causal explanations.
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KEYWORD
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physician, income, hospital, specialty
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