1. China’s new policy for healthcare cost-control based on global budget: a survey of 110 clinicians in hospitals
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Jianzhou Yan, Hui-Heng Lin, Dan Zhao, Yuanjia Hu, and Rong Shao
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China healthcare budget crisis ,Healthcare cost-control policy ,Hospitals’ healthcare cost-control actions ,Clinician survey ,Healthcare performance ,Patient satisfaction ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Abstract Background The increasing cost on healthcare exposes China’s healthcare budgets and system to financial crisis. To control the excessive growth of healthcare expenditure, China’s healthcare reforms emphasize the control of the global budget for healthcare, which leads to the release of relevant policy and a series of cost-control actions implemented by different hospitals. This work aims to identify the effects brought by the cost-control policy and actions via surveying and analysing feedback from clinicians. Methods Questionnaires on the cost-control policy and actions were designed for surveying 110 clinicians in hospitals from different regions of China. The data on the implementation of the cost-control actions and doctors’ feedback on these actions were analysed using descriptive statistics. Pearson’s chi-squared tests were performed to detect associations between doctors’ opinions and specific cost-control actions. A value of p
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- 2019
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