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KMID : 1235020150090020017
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Health Service Management Review
2015 Volume.9 No. 2 p.17 ~ p.25
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Analysis on the difference of the public and the private hospitals according to the characteristic of patients
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Oh Ji-Young
Kim Sang-Mi
Hwang Sung-Wan
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Abstract
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This study was designed to compare of the private and public hospital sectors according to the characteristic of patients as a proxy for efficiency. We used the patient survey in 2010, Measured by average length of stay, private hospitals appear to be more efficient than public hospitals across the medical departments, disease-specific and chronic diseases-specific. In the logistic regression results, all variables in the model 1, included population and social characteristics, were statistically significant and the classification accuracy was 70%. Model 2 was included the model 1 and diseases. In the model 2 cases, some variables were statistically excluded but the model 2, the classification accuracy 80.5%, was more accurate than the model 1. We conclude that private hospitals are more efficient than public hospitals in providing the range of care provided by private hospitals. These results suggest that the characteristics of the public and private hospitals had impacts on the length of stay. Therefore LOS must be taken into account by health managers when considering hospital costs.
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KEYWORD
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length of stay, LOS, public and private hospitals, logistic regression
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