美国患者对眼科医生的需求:谷歌趋势分析
Sinan Akosman1, Elizabeth Tran2, Sedona Rosenberg1
1Department of Ophthalmology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
Ophthalmic epidemiology
|October 27, 2023
概括
在美国,眼科医生供应和需求存在地理差异. 拥有最高相对需求指数的国家可能面临未满足的医疗需求,突出显示眼科服务的关键领域.
科学领域:
- 眼科医生 眼科 眼科
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 地理健康分析 地理健康分析
背景情况:
- 眼科医生供应和患者需求在美国各地有很大的差异.
- 了解这些地理模式对于解决眼科护理准入方面的潜在差异至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查美国眼科医生供应和患者对眼科服务需求的地理分布.
- 确定对眼科医生的相对需求较高的地区,这可能表明未满足的医疗需求.
主要方法:
- 利用谷歌趋势数据 (2004-2019) 的"眼科"和"眼科医生"来确定州级的相对搜索量 (RSV).
- 通过将执业眼科医生数量与州人口估计数量进行除法来计算眼科医生密度.
- 通过将RSV相对于眼科医生密度进行正常化,开发出相对需求指数 (RDI).
- 获取关于每个州认可的眼科住院计划的数据.
主要成果:
- 眼科医生度显示出显著的地理异质性,华盛顿特区,马里兰州,马萨诸塞州和纽约的高密度,怀俄明州,爱达荷州,新墨西哥州和内华达州的低密度.
- 眼科相关术语的相对搜索量 (RSV) 差异很大,密歇根州显示最高 (100),阿拉斯加/北达科他州显示最低 (36).
- 相对需求指数 (RDI) 在南达科他州,特拉华州,密歇根州和亚利桑那州最高,在华盛顿特区,夏威夷,俄勒冈州和蒙大拿州最低.
- 纽约,德克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州的眼科住院项目最多,而12个州没有.
结论:
- 在美国各地的眼科医生和眼科医生住院计划的可用性存在相当大的地理差异.
- 呈现相对需求指数最高的国家面临着未满足眼科护理服务医疗需求的风险.
- 这些发现强调了需要进行战略规划,以改善眼科医生分布和在全国范围内获得眼科医护的机会.
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