Difference in medical service use among Korean gastric cancer survivors according to regional healthcare vulnerabilities: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study investigated the relationship between medical service use and healthcare vulnerability, pre- and post-gastric cancer diagnosis. Differences between healthcare-vulnerable and healthcare-nonvulnerable regions identified inequities that require intervention.

Methods

This cohort study was done using the National Health Insurance claims data of patients diagnosed with gastric cancer between 2004 and 2013. The Position Value for Relative Comparison Index was used to determine whether the patients lived in a healthcare-vulnerable region. Medical service use was classified into annual outpatient treatment, hospitalization days, and emergency treatment. We used a generalized linear model to which the Poisson distribution was applied and compared regional difference

SUBMITTER: Jeong SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9633440 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature