Psychiatric inpatient expenditures and public health insurance programmes: Analysis of a national database covering the entire South Korean population

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chung, Woojin ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; INSURANCE, PSYCHIATRIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956468988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-263     Document Type: Article

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