Sin-Young Park

Patient experience has been one of many significant drivers in determining hospitals' performance. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate the factors that impacted patients' likelihood to give top ratings for the overall hospital experience. Large hospitals with a lower percentage of Medicare/Medicaid patients and existing electronic health record system were more likely to receive top ratings. White, female patients with lower education levels were more likely to give top rati

Hospitals are expected to fulfill a role in the communities they serve by improving the health of the population in the community as mandated in the Affordable Care Act. One way hospitals achieve this is to create partnerships with diverse organizations, such as local public health departments, state/federal agencies, and other health care organizations. The aim of this study is to examine characteristics of hospitals that developed partnerships based on improving population health. This study u

BACKGROUND: With the growing amount of clinical research, regulations and research ethics are becoming more stringent. This trend introduces a need for quality assurance measures for ensuring adherence to research ethics and human research protection beyond Institutional Review Board approval. Audits, one of the most effective tools for assessing quality assurance, are measures used to evaluate Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and protocol compliance in clinical research. However, they are laborious

Abtract During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the United States were tasked to develop partnerships with other hospitals and community organizations to overcome the unexpected challenges. The aim of this study is to examine COVID-19 case-fatality rates and explore their relationship with hospital-community partnerships. This study employed a cross-sectional design using a multilevel generalized linear model with a Poisson regression distribution and publicly available COVID-19 mortality

This study typifies fashion mobile plays in a digital environment and explores the experiential value created by them through a case study of a fashion brand mobile app. For the case analysis, mobile plays were divided into four types: intrinsic motivation/active participation, intrinsic motivation/passive participation, external motivation/active participation, and external motivation/passive participation, depending on the mobile players motivation and level of participation. Among the global

The demand for clean water is virtually present in all modern human societies even as our society has developed increasingly more advanced and sophisticated technologies to improve human life. However, as global climate change begins to show more dramatic effects in many regions in the world, the demand for a cheap, effective way to treat wastewater or to remove harmful bacteria, microbes, viruses, and other solvents detrimental to human health has continued to remain present and remains as impo

In Korea, rare diseases such as IBD require more information for the IRB process due to their distinct characteristics. IBD researchers should develop research protocols more carefully and make their research as subject-friendly as possible.

This study examined hospital–community partnership effects on 30-day readmission rates across 2,484 U.S. hospitals. Fixed effect linear models analyzed the impact of three partnership types across community strata. In average-to-low need communities, healthcare system partnerships reduced hospital-wide, heart failure, pneumonia, and THA/TKA readmissions, while local agency partnerships reduced hospital-wide, heart failure, and pneumonia rates. In high-need communities, all partnership types sign

Increasing harmful effects of climate change, such as its effect on water scarcity, has led to a focus on developing effective water purification methods to obtain pure water. Additionally, rising levels of water pollution is increasing levels of environmental degradation, calling for sources of water treatment to remove contaminants. To purify water, osmotic processes across a semipermeable membrane can take place, and recent studies are showing that incorporating nanoparticles, including carbo

본 연구는 사회적 자본으로서 취업여성결혼이민자의 자조그룹이 가지는 의미를 이해하고자 통번역사16명을 심층면담하여 국제결혼이주부터 현재 취업에 이르는 생애과정에서 다양한 학습활동과 경제활동 속에서 자조그룹을 통해 어떻게 네트워크와 신뢰를 형성하였는지를 탐색하였으며, 그 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 한국사회적응 초기단계에서는 평생교육기관에서 주로 한국어교육에 참여하면서 개인측면에서의 외로움과 한국어교육 필요, 기관측면에서의 교육프로그램운영과 자조그룹 유도가 서로 맞물려서 여성결혼이 민자들의 자조그룹 참여가 용이하였다. 둘째, 자조그룹 유형은 학습활동과 경제활동에서 각각 개인주도 비공식적 자조그룹과 기관주도 공식적 자조그룹으로 크게 나누어졌다. 셋째, 자조그룹 네트워크와 신뢰 형성에 영향을 미치는 주요 요인을 보면 ‘배울 것이 있는 사람’은 학습활동 영역에서, ‘업무상 선을 그음’은 경제활동 영역에서 주요 특징으로 나타난 반면에 ‘질투’, ‘성격’, ‘공감대 형성’, ‘바쁜 일상’은

Abstract Background: Challenging research environment while the multinational trials are increasing, standardization of IRB review has become more important. The inconsistency is often inevitable in that opinions on the ethical part may be different, but the standardization and understanding the differences is required to assure IRB review quality. Thus, we aimed to develop and suggest quality assessment measure of IRB named “Blind review” by reviewing the same research protocols by multiple IRB

Abstract Background: Standardization of IRB reviews has become increasingly important with the rise in multinational trials. Though inconsistency is often inevitable because of varying opinions on ethics, standardizing and understanding the differences between review results is required to ensure that high IRB review quality is maintained. Therefore, we aimed to develop a quality assessment measure of IRB, named “blind review,” by reviewing the same research protocols followed by multiple IRB pa

Background: Addressing social determinants of health in patient care helps hospitals better understand the non-medical factors influencing patients' health outcomes. Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between hospital characteristics, county determinants, and the systematic recording of health-related social needs among general and surgical acute care hospitals in the United States. It focused on the hospital's routine collection of data on patients' health-r

Human subject research requires philosophical and ethical considerations due to the potential for researchers’ intention and manipulation, potentially affecting the autonomy of research subjects. Psychiatric research must be conducted more carefully than other types of research due to the vulnerability of the subjects, the social implications of the research, and the requirement of higher ethical responsibilities of researchers. In psychiatric research, it is common practice to obtain consent fr