Using the Korean public health insurance database, we analyzed patients diagnosed as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) from 2004 to 2008.
Age and year-specific amount and seasonal variation of hospital visits (HV), duration of treatment (DT), the total and per capita amount of insurance payment (TAIP, PCIP) were evaluated. A total of 12,088,995 HV were studied. Total HV increased 1.7 times and DT almost doubled in 2008 compared to those in 2004. HV, DT, and TAIP showed linearly increasing patterns year by year. In a time series analysis, HV increased in winter and demonstrated seasonality in a 12-month cycle. In a Poisson regression analysis, the annual variations of HV, DT, TAIP, and PCIP were different by age groups. In patients older than 40 yr, HV significantly increased 1.10-1.16 times compared to that of the previous year. DT markedly increased in their 60s and 80s patients. The rate of increase in PCIP was steeper in patients 50 yr and older than in the others. Health care utilization due to BPH was rapidly increasing in Korea and it was remarkable in the elderly population. Seasonal variation of HV demonstrated that health care utilization increased in winter.
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Son H, Park J, Song SH, Kang JY, Hong SK, Lee HM, Kim SH, Park BJ, Lee HL, Lee KS. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Urology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Urology, Eulji University Hospital, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea; Department of Urology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea; Department of Urology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Medical Research Collaborating Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Urology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Urology, Dongguk University Gyeongju Hospital, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju, Korea.
Reference: J Korean Med Sci. 2015 Feb;30(2):180-5.
doi: 10.3346/jkms.2015.30.2.180
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PMID: 25653490