Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectivesTo curb the unreasonable growth of medical expenses and reduce the burden of medical treatment, Beijing launched two rounds of comprehensive reform of public hospitals.
Liming Liu +8 more
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Whether Public Hospital Reform Affects the Hospital Choices of Patients in Urban Areas: New Evidence from Smart Card Data. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The effects of public hospital reforms on spatial and temporal patterns of health-seeking behavior have received little attention due to small sample sizes and low spatiotemporal resolution of survey data.
Du F, Wang J, Jin H.
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Impact of government subsidy reforms on primary health care efficiency in rural eastern China: an interrupted time series analysis [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Despite rising government subsidies, inefficiencies persist in China’s primary health-care system. We evaluated an eastern rural pilot that shifted subsidies from passive grants to strategic purchasing via fixed salaries plus activity-based ...
Xiaoying Pu +5 more
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Study on inpatient expenses and cost control strategies for breast cancer patients based on Diagnosis-Intervention Packet [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthAimTo provide reference information for reducing disease burden and promoting medical service. The inpatient expenses of breast cancer patients in a top-three public hospital in Zhengzhou under the background of Diagnosis-Intervention Packet (DIP ...
Limin Yue, Zhengchen Pan, Wujun Chen
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The Effects of County Public Hospital Reform on the Consumption and Costs of Antibiotics: Evidence from a Quasinatural Experiment in Jiangsu, China. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2020 Background Overuse of antibiotics is a major driver for rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide, particularly common in China. The close linkage between hospital revenue and sales of drugs has become the key incentive for overprescription of ...
Wang Y +5 more
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Effects of County Public Hospital Reform on Procurement Costs and Volume of Antibiotics: A Quasi-Natural Experiment in Hubei Province, China. [PDF]
Pharmacoeconomics, 2018 BackgroundThe overuse of antibiotics has become a major public health challenge worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries, including China.
Tang Y, Liu C, Liu J, Zhang X, Zuo K.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of public hospital reform from the perspective of efficiency and quality in Guangxi, China. [PDF]
Springerplus, 2016 The evaluation of hospital reform effectiveness in health care reform is very important and beneficial since it helps the government to understand the current situation of pilot county public hospitals and smoothly start the reform in all county ...
Jiang S, Wu WM, Fang P.
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Impact of the Local Public Hospital Reform on the Efficiency of Medium-Sized Hospitals in Japan: An Improved Slacks-Based Measure Data Envelopment Analysis Approach. [PDF]
Health Serv Res, 2018 Zhang X, Tone K, Lu Y.
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Impact of China's Public Hospital Reform on Healthcare Expenditures and Utilization: A Case Study in ZJ Province. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Background High drug costs due to supplier-induced demand (SID) obstruct healthcare accessibility in China. Drug prescriptions can generate markup-related profits, and the low prices of other medical services can lead to labor-force underestimations ...
Zhang H, Hu H, Wu C, Yu H, Dong H.
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectivesPublic hospital reform is a key area in the Chinese healthcare system reform with the aim of controlling excessive growth of medical expenditures.
Tao Zhang +6 more
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