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Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
| العنوان: | Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis |
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| المؤلفون: | Soo-Yeon Kang, Sookyung Park, Ik-Joon Jo, Kyeongman Jeon, Seonwoo Kim, Guntak Lee, Jong-Eun Park, Taerim Kim, Se-Uk Lee, Sung-Yeon Hwang, Won-Chul Cha, Tae-Gun Shin, Hee Yoon |
| المصدر: | Medicina, Vol 58, Iss 2, p 217 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | point-of-care ultrasound, ultrasonography, emergency department, insurance, education, Medicine (General), R5-920 |
| الوصف: | Background and Objectives: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a useful tool that helps clinicians properly treat patients in emergency department (ED). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of specific interventions on the use of POCUS in the ED. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study used an interrupted time series analysis to assess how interventions changed the use of POCUS in the emergency department of a tertiary medical institute in South Korea from October 2016 to February 2021. We chose two main interventions—expansion of benefit coverage of the National Health Insurance (NHI) for emergency ultrasound (EUS) and annual ultrasound educational workshops. The primary variable was the EUS rate, defined as the number of EUS scans per 1000 eligible patients per month. We compared the level and slope of EUS rates before and after interventions. Results: A total of 5188 scanned records were included. Before interventions, the EUS rate had increased gradually. After interventions, except for the first workshop, the EUS rate immediately increased significantly (p < 0.05). The difference in the EUS rate according to the expansion of the NHI was estimated to be the largest (p < 0.001). However, the change in slope significantly decreased after the third workshop during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic (p = 0.004). The EUS rate increased significantly in the presence of physicians participating in intensive POCUS training (p < 0.001). Conclusion: This study found that expansion of insurance coverage for EUS and ultrasound education led to a significant and immediate increase in the use of POCUS, suggesting that POCUS use can be increased by improving education and insurance benefits. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 58020217 1648-9144 1010-660X |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/58/2/217; https://doaj.org/toc/1010-660X; https://doaj.org/toc/1648-9144 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/medicina58020217 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/97c512620091439da00030155d4b656d |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.97c512620091439da00030155d4b656d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 58020217 16489144 1010660X |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/medicina58020217 |