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Article

Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

by
Soo-Yeon Kang
1,2,
Sookyung Park
3,
Ik-Joon Jo
1,
Kyeongman Jeon
4,
Seonwoo Kim
5,
Guntak Lee
1,
Jong-Eun Park
1,
Taerim Kim
1,
Se-Uk Lee
1,
Sung-Yeon Hwang
1,
Won-Chul Cha
1,
Tae-Gun Shin
1 and
Hee Yoon
1,*
1
Samsung Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
2
Department of Emergency Medicine, Graduate School of Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si 24341, Korea
3
Samsung Medical Center, Department of Nursing, Seoul 06351, Korea
4
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
5
Biomedical Statistics Center, Samsung Medical Center, Research Institute for Future Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Medicina 2022, 58(2), 217; https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020217
Submission received: 19 December 2021 / Revised: 25 January 2022 / Accepted: 26 January 2022 / Published: 1 February 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Emergency Medicine)
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Abstract

Background and Objectives: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a useful tool that helps clinicians properly treat patients in emergency department (ED). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of specific interventions on the use of POCUS in the ED. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study used an interrupted time series analysis to assess how interventions changed the use of POCUS in the emergency department of a tertiary medical institute in South Korea from October 2016 to February 2021. We chose two main interventions—expansion of benefit coverage of the National Health Insurance (NHI) for emergency ultrasound (EUS) and annual ultrasound educational workshops. The primary variable was the EUS rate, defined as the number of EUS scans per 1000 eligible patients per month. We compared the level and slope of EUS rates before and after interventions. Results: A total of 5188 scanned records were included. Before interventions, the EUS rate had increased gradually. After interventions, except for the first workshop, the EUS rate immediately increased significantly (p < 0.05). The difference in the EUS rate according to the expansion of the NHI was estimated to be the largest (p < 0.001). However, the change in slope significantly decreased after the third workshop during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic (p = 0.004). The EUS rate increased significantly in the presence of physicians participating in intensive POCUS training (p < 0.001). Conclusion: This study found that expansion of insurance coverage for EUS and ultrasound education led to a significant and immediate increase in the use of POCUS, suggesting that POCUS use can be increased by improving education and insurance benefits.
Keywords: point-of-care ultrasound; ultrasonography; emergency department; insurance; education point-of-care ultrasound; ultrasonography; emergency department; insurance; education

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Kang, S.-Y.; Park, S.; Jo, I.-J.; Jeon, K.; Kim, S.; Lee, G.; Park, J.-E.; Kim, T.; Lee, S.-U.; Hwang, S.-Y.; et al. Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Medicina 2022, 58, 217. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020217

AMA Style

Kang S-Y, Park S, Jo I-J, Jeon K, Kim S, Lee G, Park J-E, Kim T, Lee S-U, Hwang S-Y, et al. Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Medicina. 2022; 58(2):217. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020217

Chicago/Turabian Style

Kang, Soo-Yeon, Sookyung Park, Ik-Joon Jo, Kyeongman Jeon, Seonwoo Kim, Guntak Lee, Jong-Eun Park, Taerim Kim, Se-Uk Lee, Sung-Yeon Hwang, and et al. 2022. "Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis" Medicina 58, no. 2: 217. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020217

APA Style

Kang, S.-Y., Park, S., Jo, I.-J., Jeon, K., Kim, S., Lee, G., Park, J.-E., Kim, T., Lee, S.-U., Hwang, S.-Y., Cha, W.-C., Shin, T.-G., & Yoon, H. (2022). Impact of Insurance Benefits and Education on Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use in a Single Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Medicina, 58(2), 217. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58020217

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