Development of Quality Assessment Domain and its Priority in Korea's Occupational Health Services: A Special Health Examination.
- Author:
Yoomi CHAE
1
;
Sangchul ROH
;
Sukchul JUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Korea. pwoman@empal.com
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Quality assessment;
Occupational health service;
Decision of priority
- MeSH:
Humans;
Korea;
Occupational Health;
Occupational Health Physicians;
Occupational Health Services;
Questionnaires
- From:Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2010;22(3):210-220
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to develop a quality assessment domain and to determine its priority in Korea's Occupational Health Services. METHODS: We designed the study in a 3 phase approach. The first phase of the process encompasses making a list of measures for quality assessments by a thorough review of the literature. The second phase emcompassed the development of inclusion and priority criteria. The third phase of survey development was conducted during August 2008 and a questionnaire was administered to occupational health physicians covering 58 subjects. RESULTS: Finally we investigated 40 quality assessment measures, including 2 for structural domain, 17 for process domain, 21 for result domain in occupational health service. The 40 quality assessment measures divided into 2 parts. The early quality assessment part was 14 measures that including 8 measures for process domains and 5 measures for result domains. CONCLUSION: We investigate a quality assessment domain and determined the priorities of the occupational health service in Korea.
