Table 4.
List of Research Theme.
| Medical treatment status | Diagnosis pattern |
| Treatment pattern | |
| Screening, test, monitoring (frequency, rate) | |
| Prescription pattern | |
| Hospitalization, readmission, NICU | |
| Emergency medicine | |
| Home-based care | |
| Intervention effect | Effectiveness (treatment, prevention): surgery, procedures, drug, vaccine, periodontal management, follow-up, rehabilitation, health guidance, etc. |
| Drug repositioning | |
| Safety | |
| Adverse outcomes | |
| Clinical epidemiology, course of diseases | Prevalence, incidence, number of patients |
| Association, risk factor, predictor, prognostic factor | |
| Clinical characteristics (age, sex) | |
| Comorbidity, underlying conditions | |
| Mortality, survival, prognosis | |
| Clinical course | |
| Surveillance, seasonality, yearly change | |
| Health economics | Cost-effectiveness |
| Cost analysis | |
| Factors associated with medical expenditure | |
| Economic impact | |
| Medical billing issues | |
| Health policy evaluation and utilization | Health policy impact: medical subsidy, payment system, drug approval, regulatory action on drug, labeling change on prescriptions OTC switching, clinical guideline, information campaign, etc. |
| Hospital performance | |
| Volume-outcome relationship (other healthcare factors) | |
| Supply and demand for healthcare | |
| Post-marketing surveillance | |
| Analysis of healthcare region | |
| Use for healthcare planning | |
| Evaluation of resource consumption | |
| Analysis of home care service utilization | |
| Quality of care | Adherence to clinical guideline |
| Quality indicator | |
| Safety indicator | |
| Healthcare benchmarking | |
| Research methodology | Validation study |
| Comparison with other data sources | |
| Patient traceability | |
| Definition of death | |
| Correction methods for medical fee revisions | |
| Development of database | |
| Development of indicator/algorithm | |
| Patient health service utilization | Adherence, compliance, persistence |
| Treatment initiation | |
| Follow-up visits | |
| Healthcare utilization | |
| Healthcare-seeking behavior | |
| Patient choice, selection | |
| Socioeconomic comparison | Regional variations |
| Age and sex distribution | |
| Income-related inequality | |
| Residence (home, care facilities) | |
| Type of health insurance | |
| International comparison | |
| Prediction model | Predict survival/mortality |
| Severe adverse events | |
| Hospitalization | |
| Comorbidity scores | |
| High-need high-cost patients | |
| Prediction model of infectious disease | |
| COVID-19 | Trends in hospitalizations (NICU) during the COVID-19 outbreak |
| Changes in intervention/care practice | |
| Adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines | |
| School closure and social distancing for COVID-19 | |
| Economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic | |
| Others | Effect of earthquakes |
| Others |