Risk factors for asthma-related healthcare use: longitudinal analysis using the NHI claims database in a Korean asthma cohort.

Though insurance claims data are useful for researching asthma, they have important limitations, such as a diagnostic inaccuracy and a lack of clinical information. To overcome these drawbacks, we used the novel method by merging the clinical data from our asthma cohort with the National Health Insu...

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Main Authors: Taehoon Lee, Jinhee Kim, Sujeong Kim, Kyoungjoo Kim, Yunjin Park, Yuri Kim, Yoon Su Lee, Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Sae-Hoon Kim, Yoon-Seok Chang, You Sook Cho, An-Soo Jang, Jung-Won Park, Dong-Ho Nahm, Ho-Joo Yoon, Sang-Heon Cho, Young-Joo Cho, Byoung Whui Choi, Hee-Bom Moon, Tae-Bum Kim, COREA study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4232512?pdf=render