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KMID : 0858820140310020055
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2014 Volume.31 No. 2 p.55 ~ p.64
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The Effect of the Telemedicine Service System Application for the Patients with Hypertension at Community Health Practitioner Posts in Gangwon Province
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Kwon Myung-Soon
Noh Ghee-Young
Choi Joung-Hwa
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study is to identify the effects of utilizing a telemedicine service system on patients with hypertension at home in rural areas.
Methods: The study was designed to be a retrospective case-control study. The subjects of this study were 152
patients with hypertension who were managed by community health practitioner posts; using telemedicine service system group (n=76), usual care group (n=76). The data was collected through EMR (electric medical record) from September to December, 2013, and analyzed by descriptive statistics of x2/t-test and ANCOVA.
Results: The analysis showed that telemedicine service system was an effective way to deal with body weight (F=4.723, p=.031) and BMI (F=5.225, p=.024).
Conclusions: This study provides evidence for utilizing the telemedicine service system based on information technology as intervention method in the hypertension management.
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KEYWORD
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Telemedicine, Chronic disease, Hypertension, Rural areas, Retrospective study
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