The future prospects of supply and demand for urologists in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to forecast the future supply and demand for urologists and to discuss the possible policy implications.

Materials and methods

A demographic utilization-based model was used to calculate the total urologist requirements for Korea. Utilization rates for ambulatory and inpatient genitourinary specialty services were estimated according to age, sex, and insurance status. These rates were used to estimate genitourinary specialty-specific total service utilization expressed in patient care minutes for future populations and converted to genitourinary physician requirements by applying per-genitourinary-physician productivity estimates. An in-and-out movement model for urologist supply was used.

Results

Depending on assumptions about da

SUBMITTER: Oh Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5671958 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature