Observational studyMedicine2015
Poor Self-Rated Health Influences Hospital Service Use in Hospitalized Inpatients With Chronic Conditions in Taiwan.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Social health insurance, family support, and chronic diseases as determinants of health service utilization among senior citizens in rural Nepal.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The impact of health information seeking and social influence on functional food purchase intention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Polypharmacy and the Change of Self-Rated Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Health Service Utilization and Its Determinants among Senior Citizens in the Semiurban Area of Western Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of aging research · 2023Article
- Associated factors of doctor visits made by urban-dwelling older adults in Sri Lanka: an application of Anderson's model of health service utilization.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- The Health-Seeking Behavior among Malaysian Adults in Urban and Rural Areas Who Reported Sickness: Findings from the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2019.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Cost-related unmet need for healthcare services in Kenya.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Hypertension Status and Associations with Self-Rated Health and General Practitioner Health Seeking in a Rural Australian Cohort.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2018Article
- Pain and self-rated health among middle-aged and older Canadians: an analysis of the Canadian community health survey-healthy aging.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Self-efficacy reduces the impact of social isolation on medical student's rural career intent.BMC medical education · 2018Article
- Elevated neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio predicts mortality in medical inpatients with multiple chronic conditions.Medicine · 2016Observational
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Our aim was to investigate the association between self-rated health (SRH) and use of hospital services (ie, medical outpatient department, emergency department, and general ward. admissions). Cross-sectional study data were collected from 230 consecutive patients admitted to medical departments of a 2000-bed academic medical center in Taiwan using standardized operating procedures for data collection of SRH (ie, a single-item question inquiring overall perceived health status), medical disorders, depressive symptoms, and combined service utilization over a 1-year period (ie, number of visits to outpatient department, number of visits to emergency department, and number of hospitalizations). Electronic medical records were retrieved, with self-reported external medical visits added to in-hospital frequencies of service use to provide better estimation of health service utilization. Fifty-two percent of study patients rated their health as poor or very poor. Poor SRH was associated with more visits to medical outpatient department, emergency department, and hospital admission. Multivariate logistic regression demonstrated an independent association between poor SRH and services utilization after adjustment for age, gender, hypertension, diabetes, metastatic cancer, number of chronic illness, life-threatening event, life-time suicidal ideation, and depression. SRH may be a useful research tool to model medical service use for inpatients with chronic conditions.
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