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JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 11, Pages 1409-1414Publisher
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2011.26.11.1409
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Validity; Self-Reported; Healthcare Utilization; Community Health Survey
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- Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. KMA
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To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Community Health Survey (CHS), we analyzed data from 11,217 participants aged >= 19 yr, in 13 cities and counties in 2008. Three healthcare utilization indices (admission, outpatient visits, dental visits) as comparative variables and the insurance benefit claim data of the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service as the gold-standard were used. The sensitivities of admission, outpatient visits, and dental visits in CHS were 54.8%, 52.1%, and 61.0%, respectively. The specificities were 96.4%, 85.6%, and 82.7%, respectively. This is the first study to evaluate the validity of nationwide health statistics resulting from questionnaire surveys and shows that CHS needs a lot of efforts to reflect the true health status, health behavior, and healthcare utilization of the population.
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