Introduction to the KPS
Background
The health workforce is one of the key resources that makes up the national health care system. Physicians are the essential human resource that play a pivotal role in the health care system. A good understanding of overall status physicians makes it possible to operate health care system stably and efficiently. The Research Institute for Healthcare Policy of Korean Medical Association seeks to contribute to building a sound medical environment and improving national health by generating physician data.
Purpose
The purpose of the KPS is not only to diagnose various problems arising from physicians’ patient care, education, training, and working environment but to identify physicians’ awareness toward various healthcare policies and issues.
Survey Design
Subject Selection
2016 KPS conducted using a population of about 120,000 physicians from the Korean Medical Association’s membership database. The membership DB was used as a sampling frame and Stratified Quota Sampling method was also used in which the stratification variables, for example, gender, age, practice site, are considered.
Method
In the 2016 KPS, a Computer Aided Web Interview(CAWI) method was introduced. The survey questionnaires were sent and collected via e-mails in cooperation with survey company. The survey was conducted for 7 weeks from November 21, 2016 to January 8, 2017. Among 61,983 e-mail recipients, total of 8,564 recipients responded(13.8% Response Rate).
Contents
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Subject |
Contents |
| 1 |
Working Conditions and Environment |
- Length of continuous service years
- Weekly working condition(working 5 or 6 or 7 days a week)
- Number of day-offs per year
- Number of working days per year
- Working hours per day
- Composition of working activity(clinical, administration, teaching/education, research, etc.)
- Number of patient care per day(outpatient, inpatient, surgery)
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| 2 |
Awareness and Evaluation of Healthcare System and Policies |
- Awareness and evaluation of the healthcare system
- Overall evaluation of the healthcare system
- Satisfaction on patient care services
- Awareness of healthcare quality compared to 3 years ago
- Awareness of public‘s healthcare access
- Evaluation of the healthcare policy
- Awareness of government’s major healthcare policies(6 policies)
- Evaluation of government’s major healthcare policies(6 policies)
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| 3 |
Availability and Utilization of Healthcare Information System |
- Availability of healthcare information system (OCS, EMR, PACS)
- Usage of healthcare information system (OCS, EMR, PACS)
- Usefulness of healthcare information system(OCS, EMR, PACS)
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| 4 |
Occupational Job Satisfaction |
- Intention to become a physician again
- Intention to recommend physician occupation to child
- Occupational satisfaction
- Job satisfaction(11 measures )
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| 5 |
Carrier Plan |
- Intent to turnover within 2 years and reasons(for self-employed physicians, paid physicians, and professor)
- Intent to move to another region within 2 years(for self-employed physicians, paid physicians, and professor)
- Intent to change hospital scale within 2 years(for self-employed physicians only)
- Plan after training(for intern or resident only)
- Intent to move to other location after training(for intern or resident only)
- Plan after completion of military service(for public health physicians only)
- Intent to move to another region after completion of military service(for public health physicians only)
- Intent to immigrate
- Expected retirement age
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| 6 |
Lifestyle and Health Status |
- Smoking rate and amount
- Drinking rate and amount
- Exercise
- Sleeping hours
- Check-up within 2 years and type of check-up
- Life satisfaction
- Stress
- Subjective health status
- Number and type of chronic diseases and management status
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| 7 |
Special Questionnaire |
- Self-employed physicians
- Solo or group practice
- Number of participating group physicians
- Size of bed
- Staff numbers and their composition
- Number of years opened
- Retired physicians
- Retirement age
- Practice site of final working place
- Type of institution at the final working place
- Region of final working place
- Length of continuous service years at the final working place
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| 8 |
Socio-demographic Characteristics |
- Gender
- Age
- Practice site
- Patient care or not
- Specialty earned
- Actual practicing specialty
- Marital status
- Whether living together with family or not
- Wether a physician is in the family or not
- Region of high school
- Name, region, type(school or college), and graduation year of medical school
- Region and completion year of resident training
- Type, ownership(public or private), and region of current working place
- Practice site, type, region, and the length of continuous service years at the past immediate working place
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