Konkuk University School of Medicine Researchers Release New Data on Cardiovascular Medicine (Trends in Prehospital Visits as a Cause of Delayed Admission in Korean Stroke Patients over a 10-Year Period: A National Health Insurance Claims Data …): Health and Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine

2023 APR 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on cardiovascular medicine is now available. According to news originating from Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “A prehospital delay from symptom onset to hospital arrival resulted in stroke-related complications or in-hospital deaths in acute stroke patients. We aimed to investigate trends in prehospital visits as a cause of prehospital delay using data from the Korean Health Insurance Service.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Konkuk University School of Medicine: “This nationwide, population-based, retrospective cohort study included 524,524 newly-diagnosed stroke patients admitted via the emergency departments of secondary and tertiary hospitals. We obtained the prehospital visits rate from 2010 to 2019 and identified the related characteristics. Prehospital visits were observed in 111,465 patients (21.3%). The prehospital visits rate decreased from 25.1% in 2010 to 17.8% in 2019, but the number of patients increased from 11,255 cases in 2010 to 11,747 cases in 2019. Fortunately, the rate of delayed admission for more than one day decreased from 26.7% to 21.3%. However, 10.4% of patients were diagnosed more than two days later. Young, females, or patients with higher income status and living in low urbanization areas exhibited a higher rate of prehospital visits.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Prehospital visits in Korean stroke patients decreased from 25.1% in 2010 to 17.8% in 2019. However, more than 10,000 patients still visited other medical institutions before admission to treatment.”

For more information on this research see: Trends in Prehospital Visits as a Cause of Delayed Admission in Korean Stroke Patients over a 10-Year Period: A National Health Insurance Claims Data Study. Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023,24(3):83. The publisher for Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine is IMR Press.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2403083.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jinyoung Shin, Department of Family Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, 05030 Seoul, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Hyeongsu Kim, Ho Jin Jeong, Jeehye Lee, Jusun Moon, Kwang-Pil Ko, Youngtaek Kim. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.