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KMID : 1170320110170010145
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Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy
2011 Volume.17 No. 1 p.145 ~ p.172
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The change of hospitals bed supply and hospital utilizations of patients after the mid-1990s
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Park Hyeung-Keun
Park Youn-Seo
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Abstract
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the trends of acute hospital beds supply and acute hospital utilization after deregulation of hospital beds in 1990s. This study calculate hospital bed proportions and hospital market shares by hospital characteristics, each hospital’s market shares and turnover rates for 1996-2005 using ’Patient Survey Data’ which has been gathered by the Ministry of Health and Welfare every three years. The concentration of patients into Seoul is examined, too. The results show the constant increase of acute hospital beds by ’hospitals’, hospital bed expansion of general hospitals and decrease of hospital bed proportions where has been in Seoul in the bed supply side. In the hospital utilization side, it appear that total ’hospitals’ market share has been continuously increased but less than it’s growth of bed composition, small-scale general hospital market share has been decreased and the market share of big4 hospitals in Seoul. It is confirmed that the growth rate of patients that turn to hospitals in Seoul to get best outcomes has been faster than on the average rate.
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KEYWORD
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hospital bed deregulation, bed supply, hospital utilization, hospital market share, patient concentration
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