[PDF] Top 20 Health care utilization of home care patients at an academic medical center in Taiwan

... study in Taiwan. At the academic medical center of our study, home visits to home care patients were generally offered by physicians and nurses ... See full document

... risk in medical centers, the risks between patients in regional hospitals and patients in local hospitals did not differ significantly (all ...risk in Taipei city, the ... See full document

... National Health Insurance（NHI）and Long Term Care ...findings of this study are as following：（1）Most of 558 cases in the sample are women and the ...more medical ... See full document

... problem in terms of clinic and population health. Medical expenditures related to diabetes represent about 10% of expenditures in Taiwan National Health ...purposes ... See full document

... is an explorative research on adults in intensive care units, focusing in particular to the patients? health care demands and their satisfaction ...out in the ... See full document

... national priority. Although this study has a host of strengths, there are some notable limitations. First, the decision to choose HSC was based on physicians and patient/families preferences, which opens the study ... See full document

... result of this study also revealed that during the technology-based service encounters in the health care industry, credibility is one of the most important items in service ... See full document

... the care time of main caregiver. Data of direct and indirect costs were obtained from health insurance claims from the National Health Research Institutes and ...cost of the ... See full document

... majority of patients with multiple chronic diseases tended to visit single hospital persistently, which accounted for ...3.5% of all beneficiaries and 19.3% of covered national health ... See full document

... use of health information might still compound access problems among the disabled children in rural areas (Probst et ...Thus, home and community visits should be continually given to families ... See full document

... claims of the NHIRD had some ...influence of location on ambulatory care uti- lization could not be ...fields of referral source and "visit disposition" that specified where the patient was ... See full document

... did Taiwan get there? • The politics of health care • Before 1995, those who did received health insurance through a patchwork of insurance plans that tacked on health ... See full document

... hospice palliative care till death; (3) Mixed ward (mixed) group: admitted to general ward in 8.. the beginning and were transferred to hospice ward in the same hospitalized period, the[r] ... See full document

... rise of the health expenditure . There are a lot of reasons, for example: the increase of income, the extension of lifespan, the aging of population, the progress of ... See full document

... purpose of this study was to analyze the ten-year trend of health care services utilization among population aged over 40 in Taiwan area during 1996 to 2005 ...researcher ... See full document

... prevalence of overweight and obesity are growing progressively among the elderly (over 65 ...occurs in only a tiny fraction of the population, is actually associated with more excess ...disability ... See full document

... with patients with lower salaries. This is possibly because patients with higher incomes are more capable of maintaining and enhancing the quality of the daily care they receive and ... See full document

... effect of functional status on medical care costs in the elderly population in ...Taiwan. In addition to the results, our study has several methodologic strengths that may ... See full document

... seized an opportune moment to pass its plan — just after democratization, with its blossoming demands from NGOs and civic groups, but before the Asian Financial Crisis dried up government coffers in the ... See full document

... facts of the increased aged population and chronic diseases, the government has focused on how to reduce the repeated uses of medical resource and how to enhance the quality of health ... See full document