Use of the National Health Information Database for Estimating Town-Level Mortality in Korea: Comparison with the National Administrative Data, 2014-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study addressed town-level mortality rates using the National Health Information Database (NHID) of the National Health Insurance Service in Korea in comparison with those derived from the National Administrative Data (NAD) of the Ministry of Interior and Safety.

Methods

We employed the NHID and NAD between 2014 and 2017. We compared the numbers of population and deaths at the national level between these two data sets. We also compared the distribution of the town-level numbers of population and deaths of the two data sets. Correlation analyses were performed to investigate the relation between the NHID and NAD in the town-level numbers of population and deaths, crude mortality rate, and standardized mortality ratio (SMR).

Results

The numbers of popul

SUBMITTER: Kim I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6565926 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature