The effect of public reporting of acute myocardial infarction on the choice of hospital

This study is to investigate the effect of public reporting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) care on the people’s choice of hospitals. A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire. The survey questions include the awareness and usage of public reporting, and the impact of...

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Published in:PloS one Vol. 20; no. 5; p. e0323780
Main Authors: Kim, Mira, Lee, Kyungshin, Chae, Kyunghee, Jung, Chai-Young, Lee, Sangmin, Quan, Hude, Kim, Sukil
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Public Library of Science 27.05.2025
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:
Adult
Age composition
Aged
Analysis
Cancer therapies
Care and treatment
Cellular telephones
Choice Behavior
Consumer preferences
Cross-Sectional Studies
Earth Sciences
Female
Health care policy
Heart attack
Heart attacks
Hospitals
Humans
Knowledge
Male
Medical care
Medicine and Health Sciences
Metropolitan areas
Middle Aged
Mortality
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial Infarction - therapy
Patients
People and Places
Public relations
Quality management
Questionnaires
Ratings
Research and Analysis Methods
Social Sciences
South Korea
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult
South Korea
ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Summary:This study is to investigate the effect of public reporting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) care on the people’s choice of hospitals. A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire. The survey questions include the awareness and usage of public reporting, and the impact of the public reporting on the choice of hospitals. The difference in responses before and after acquiring information about public reporting was compared using multinomial logistic regression. Following a thorough validity check, 740 respondents are included in the final survey data set. The average age of respondents was 38.7 years (SD: 11.8), with 75.3% being female. Age distribution was as follows: 26.3% in their 20s, 23.5% in their 30s, 30.0% in their 40s, and 20.2% in their 50s. Most participants (73.7%) lived in metropolitan areas, and 75.1% had a university degree or higher. Before providing information about public reporting of AMI care, 62.8% of respondents selected ‘nearby hospitals’ as the best option for AMI patients, followed by ‘famous hospitals’, ‘usual hospital’, and ‘hospitals with good rates’. Non-health-related occupation shows significantly changed results of hospital choice between before and after obtaining public reporting information (p < 0.001). Publicly available hospital quality ratings can influence people’s choice of hospital and increase the risk of selecting a hospital with a good rating than the nearest hospital which is recommended for AMI patients. Policy-makers need to stress the importance of choosing the nearest hospital when AMI symptoms occur in addition to hospital ratings in the public reporting.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
These authors co-first-authored this manuscript.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0323780