A Study on the Perception of Concurrent Use of Western and Korean Medicine Care and Integrated Medical Service in Korea - Targeting tertiary hospital users –

Abstract

Objectives: Currently, Korea’s medical services are divided into Western medicine and Korean medicine, and people who are not satisfied with the existing treatments are looking for complementary and alternative medicine(CAM). Therefore, this study attempted to confirm patients' perception of the ongoing collaborative treatment and integrated medical service that added CAM to collaborative treatment based on tertiary hospital users. So that we can confirm the expected advantage and disadvantage of integrated medical service system and the necessity of supporting medical expenses for it.Methods: The survey was conducted on 100 people who experienced tertiary hospital treatment and other 100 people who experienced both tertiary hospital treatment and Korean medicine treatment at the same period. The survey was conducted until the number of respondents in both group reached 100. The survey was conducted through e-mail and was conducted from September 27, 2021 to October 8, 2021.Results: For the advantages of collaborative treatment ‘increased in psychological stability,’ and for disadvantages ‘longer time spent for treatment’ were the most common. If integrated medical services are implemented in the future, expected advantages include ‘consideration of various treatments.’ and expected disadvantages include ‘increased medical cost.’ The needs to expand support for health insurance for integrated medical services were 75.5% among responders.Conclusions: We were able to find out the (expected) advantages and disadvantages of the collaborative medical care and the integrated medical system that medical users experienced or expected, also confirmed positive answers to the expansion of health insurance support for the integrated medical system.

A Survey Study on the Perception for Development of Integrated Medical Service Model and Its Application in Clinical Field - A Survey study with Doctors and Korean Medicine Doctors -

“…현대 사회는 과거 감염 등의 급성 질환이 주요 사 인이었던 것과는 다르게 인구의 노령화가 진행됨에 따른 만성질환, 퇴행성 질환, 암질환, 환경성 및 스트 레스 관련 질환 등이 증가하는 추세이다 1,2,3,4,5) . 이와 더불어 국민들의 건강에 대한 관심도의 증가 및 달라 진 수요는 의료에 대한 인식을 질병의 치료라는 1차 적 개념에서 삶의 질 향상 및 무병장수를 위한 수단 으로 변화시키고 있다 6) .…”