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KMID : 0387320070170020018
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Korean Journal of Health Policy and Administration
2007 Volume.17 No. 2 p.18 ~ p.32
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The Influence of Physician’s Assistants on National Health Insurance Revenue and Number of Patients in Clinic
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Cho Suk-Ju
Park Woong-Sub
Kim Sang-A
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was a quantitative analysis for the influence of physician’s assistants on national health insurance revenue and number of patients in clinic. The data was derived from the Korean national health insurance. That was complete enumeration. Dependent variables were measured by national health insurance revenue and number of patients. Independent variables were reported physician’s assistants that the number of nurse, nurse-aid, technologist of clinical laboratory, physical therapist and radiologist in clinic. Confounding variables were classified by demand(region, number of inhabitants, number of clinics, number of bed per a hundred thousand persons) and supply(sex and age of representative, number of bed, subjective of medical treatment). On the multiple regression analyses, the physician’s assistants that nurse, nurse-aid, technologist of clinical laboratory and physical therapist were statistically significant for outputs. But radiologist was statistically significant only for number of patient.
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KEYWORD
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Physician’s assistants, Revenue, Number of patients, Clinic
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