Infant Conditions, Damage Morbidity and Treatment Recovery Rate using Korean National Hospital Discharge Injury Survey

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the morbidity and treatment recovery rates for the conditions and injuries of infants who were hospitalized and treated.Methods: The analysis was based on infants under the age of 1 from the 2nd-15th data (patients discharged from 2006 to 2018) of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ‘In-Depth Discharge Injury Survey’.Results: As a result of the study, it was confirmed that most infants admitted to the hospital from 2006 to 2018 improved and were discharged with an overall improvement rate of 98.47%. In addition, the morbidity rate of infants admitted to hospitals with specific conditions originating before and after birth showed a steady decrease, but increased around 2018, and the morbidity rate of infants hospitalized due to injury showed a gradual decrease, and showed a sharp decline after 2015. It was found that the overall infant condition improvement rate increased and the injury morbidity rate was rapidly decreasing.Conclusions: If systems and policies are established to provide medical services to mothers and newborns who are in medically vulnerable groups, as well as to improve the high-risk maternal emergency system and high-risk neonatal intensive care unit, it is possible to reduce the risk of diseases and unintentional damage that can occur before and after childbirth. Therefore, it is suggested that the morbidity rate can be improved.