TY - JOUR AU - Suh, Hae Sun AU - Kang, Hye-Young AU - Kim, Jinkyung AU - Shin, Euichul PY - 2014 DA - 2014/11/21 TI - Effect of health insurance type on health care utilization in patients with hypertension: a national health insurance database study in Korea JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 570 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Higher utilization of healthcare services has been observed among individuals who receive public aid compared to individuals who do not receive public aid in many countries. However, no systematic investigations have explored whether this pattern of higher utilization persists after correcting for a number of factors in Korea. In this study, we sought to examine whether the type of health insurance, wage-based contributory insurance (Health Insurance, HI) or government-subsidized public assistance (Medical Aid, MA), affects the utilization of inpatient services after controlling for baseline patient and institutional characteristics among patients with hypertension in Korea. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0570-9 DO - 10.1186/s12913-014-0570-9 ID - Suh2014 ER -