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Title   인천광역시 암환자의 의료 이용 형태에 관한 연구 ( A Survey for the Hospital Utilization of Cancer patients in Inchon )
Publicationinfo   1999 Jan; 031(02): 386-396.
Key_word   Cancer registry, Inchon, Central cancer registry
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Abstract   Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the hospital utilization of cancer patients in Inchon and to assess the feasibility of Inchon Cancer Registry (ICR). Materials and Methods: We used two data sources from Korean Central Cancer Registry (KCCR) and Korean Medical Insurance (KMI) for analysis. Results: KCCR data analysis showed that 50.8% of cancer patients visited hospitals in Seoul, 46% visited hospitals in Inchon, and 2.6% in other areas at first visit. The analysis of KMI data showed that 43% of cancer patients visited hospital in Seoul, 38.5% visited hospitals in Inchon, and 18.5% in other areas at first visit. From these results, we found many cancer patients visited hospitals located in Seoul. We estimated that 52.1% would be missed when we performed cancer registry project in Inchon area alone from the KCCR data analysis. On the other hand, 60% would be missed from the KMI data. However, if we used registration data at the nation-wide level and actively registered cancer patient data in Inchan, expected unregistration rates would be 5%. Conclusion: Even though registration rate to KCCR was relatively low (74%) in Inhon and many patients were treated in other area, we are convinced that almast all cancer patients would be registered because most cancer patients visited at least one of the cancer registry hospitals at the nation-wide level. Therefore, if ICR used KCCR and encouraged the hospitals in Inchon to actively participate in cancer registration, the population-based can- cer registration in Inchon would be possible.
저 자   김우철(Woo Chul Kim),홍윤철(Yun Chul Hong),부유경(Yoo Kyung Pu),오재환(Jae Hwan Oh),김주영(Joo Young Kim),우제홍(Ze Hong Woo),이태훈(Tae Hoon Lee),오희철(Heechoul Ohrr),안돈희(Don Hee Ahn),노준규(John J K Loh)