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Caesarean operation rate at 39% on declining trend.
The Caesarean operation rate during the first quarter of this year recorded 38.9%, showing an ongoing declining trend as 39.6% in the 4th quarter of 2002 and 40.5% in 2001.
The decline rates showed 7.3% at hospital...
Domestic pharmaceutical firms regaining ground in ethical market
Stimulated by the recent trend that some hospitals including university hospitals, which have heavily prescribed original drugs, are switching their prescription patterns in favor of locally produced items, domestic p...
KMA requires immediate withdrawal of current DRG system
"The current DRG (diagnosis related group) system, a classification of hospital case types into groups expected to have similar hospital resource use, should be immediately scrapped, in that such system may cause the ...
Korea's medical institutions showing poor profitability compared with Japan's counterparts
Although there is little difference in a stability aspect of medical institutions between Korea and Japan, Korea's medical institutions showed overall poor profitability compared to Japan's counterparts and th...
Differential treatment charge system will be adopted: recent forum says
The government unveiled a plan to implement a new differential treatment charge system through the proposed evaluation of the domestic medical institutions every year and to that end, around 300 general hospitals will...
Hospital Association worried over 5 weekday work.
The Korea Hospital Association (KHA) conducted a survey over the current 5 weekday working issue, which seems to pass through the National Assembly since the industrial communities recently expressed a positive stance...
University hospitals' average management losses jumped to 4.0 billion last year
More than half of university hospitals nationwide suffered an average net income loss of 4.2 billion won in terms of medical profitability last year, according to a recent report.
In a survey of 22 university hospi...
Seven diseases to be covered by DRG system in this November
The Ministry of Health and Welfare unveiled a plan to additionally apply a DRG (diagnosis related group) system to patients having surgeries with seven diseases (i.e., cataract, amigdaline, cecum, hemorrhoid, hernia, ...
Oriental Medical Service Fostering Act passed through National Assembly.
The oriental medical service fostering act proposed by Rep. Kim Seong-soon of MDP finally passed through the National Assembly on July 15.
The new provisions for supporting the oriental medicine will be enforced in...
Medical insurance outlays by elderly people aged over 65 top 36.3% in 2002
According to statistics compiled by the Health Insurance Review Agency, the medical outlays of elderly people (65 years older or more) last year accounted for 36.3 percent to 737.6 billion won from the t...
