Summary: | 碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 醫療暨健康產業管理系碩士班 === 101 === Backgrounds: Heart and cerebrovascular diseases are the second and third leading causes of Taiwan`s top 10 death in recent years. It attributes prevention and treatment to early finding various risk factors of coronary artery disease(CAD). To understand the relationship between CAD patients and utilization of high-risk population in community health examination can promote healthcare policy and reduce expenditure on limited health care insurance budget.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the relative factors between utilization of community health examination and CAD.
Materials and Methods: This study employed a retrospective analysis of community health examination, inpatients and outpatients during 2007 to 2012 in a regional teaching hospital of Taichung. The sampling subjects were selected from the main code of 410 to 414 in ICD-9-CM. The fractions were divided by the frequency of joining community health examination, 1-2 times as the low utilization, 3-4 times as the middle utilization, 5-6 times as the high utilization. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and SPSS18.0 were software used to process the data. The frequency of joining community health examination to CAD patients was discussed and then the data were analyzed by logistic regression statistic method.
Results and Conclusion: The results showed that CAD patients had higher utilization of community health examination and males had higher frequency than females. The means of Diastolic blood pressure, BMI, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, GPT and blood glucose were significant differences. All above had the same tendency in the order of low, mid and high utilization.
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