The Economic Situation Analysis of the Impact for Cancelling Drug Addiction on Public Hospitals’ Operations
- 1 The First Affiliated Hospital of Hebei North University, Zhangjiakou, China
Abstract
Objective: Investigation of the impact of the reform of urban public hospitals in cancelling drug price addition on public hospitals’ operations and patient personal burdens, providing data support for the comprehensive reform of urban public hospitals. Methods: Using Excel 2007, the overall operation of the hospital, the workload of medical staff in the internal and external departments, the proportion of medicines, and the burden of medicines for patients were analyzed before and after the cancellation of drug sales in a public hospital. Results: The cancellation of drug price additions had little effect on the outpatient visits of the hospital, and had a greater impact on the hospital’s income structure and patient’s consumption structure. Conclusion: Simply relying on the cancellation of drug price addition cannot effectively adjust the structural contradiction of medical service prices in the reform of public hos pitals in the urban areas. The transformation of medical institutions from “drug dependent doctors” to “doctors dependent doctors” requires the strengthening of hospital internal management, so that supporting medicine price reforms will ultimately improve the overall quality and efficiency of the hospital.
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