|
KMID : 0950020060320010013
|
|
Journal of Health Science & Medical Technology
2006 Volume.32 No. 1 p.13 ~ p.21
|
|
|
The Actual Condition of Inter-Hospital Collaboration
|
|
Lee Tae-Ro
Choi Man-Kyu
Moon Sang-Sik
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
As a way to strengthen competitiveness of hospitals in changing health care environment, it has been necessary for hospitals to make and carry out inter-hospital collaboration and management system of partnerships. The purpose of this study is to research into the actual condition of inter-hospital collaboration and to prove that it is helpful and useful when hospitals formulate their business strategies. For the purpose of this study, a total of 241 clinics and small to mediumsized hospitals located in Seoul were primarily surveyed by mail, and also by a phone from May 29 to July 10, 2005. The major results of this study were as follows : First, about half of the respondent hospitals have entered into interhospital collaboration and the period of collaboration was mostly within three years, and the time spent referring patients to a collaborative hospital was mostly within one hour. The main reasons of entering into inter-hospital collaboration were ranked by the reputation of the partner hospital(the tertiary hospital), the improvement of patients’ treatment levels, and accessible geographic location. Second, the factors that were first considered when doctors referred their patients to upper-class hospitals if the collaborative hospital was the proper hospital for a patient’s treatment, and the quality of access for emergency patients. Referral methods of patients were mostly carried out by a written request, and the rest telephone and fax. Third, the main positive factors that changed after entering into interhospital collaboration were the more rapid transfer of emergency patients, the improvement of patients’ reliability and hospital’s image, and the increase of confidence for patients’ treatment and so on.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
hospital, collaboration, competitiveness
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|
|