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Objective:To investigate the clinical efficacy and mechanism of Ganoderma lucidum hypoglycemic formula in the treatment of insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with liver and kidney yin deficiency. Methods:A total of 86 patients with T2DM with liver and kidney yin deficiency who were diagnosed and treated at Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from January 2021 to February 2022 were included in this study. These patients were divided into a control group and a treatment group, with 43 patients in each group using a 1:1 ratio using the sealed envelope method. Both groups were treated with standardized Western medicine. The treatment group was also treated with the Ganoderma lucidum hypoglycemic formula. All patients were followed up for 12 weeks. The clinical symptoms, curative effect, glucose and lipid metabolism, inflammatory factors, oxidative stress change, and safety were compared between the two groups. Results:The total response rate in the treatment group was 88.4% (38/43), which was significantly higher than 53.5% (23/43) in the control group ( χ2 = 12.69, P < 0.001). After treatment, the traditional Chinese medicine syndrome score, fasting blood glucose, 2-hour postprandial blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, insulin resistance index, total cholesterol, triglyceride, tumor necrosis factor α, and interleukin-6 decreased in each group. The amplitudes of decrease of the above indexes were greater in the treatment group compared with the control group (all P < 0.05). C-peptide in the fasting state, C-peptide at 2 hours after a diet, and superoxide dismutase increased in each group. The amplitudes of increase of the three indexes were greater in the treatment group compared with the control group (all P < 0.05). Conclusion:Ganoderma lucidum hypoglycemic formula can greatly improve insulin resistance and glucose and lipid metabolism in T2DM patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency. The underlying mechanism may be to further reduce the inflammatory response and anti-oxidative stress by down-regulating tumor necrosis factor α and interleukin-6 levels and up-regulating superoxide dismutase level, thereby effectively alleviating insulin resistance in T2DM.
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Objective:To analyze the policy implementation of family doctors′ contracted services in different regions based on practices in typical regions.Methods:From April to October 2019, we conducted field investigations in 14 regions, collected data on policy formulation and implementation, organizational form and service content of contracting service, incentive mechanism and capacity development. By means of key persons′ interview, we tried to understand the background of district/county policy implementation, as well as policy delivery and existing difficulties. The measurement data were expressed by means, and the qualitative data were used to extract the key content through semantic analysis.Results:The policy of family doctors′ contracted services had been promoted from pilot exploration to normative development. 71.0% of responsible entities of the contracted services in research regions were family doctor teams. Contraction fee has begun to reflect the value of family doctors′ work, while the average contracted service fees in the eastern, central and western regions were 125, 31.25 and 42.5 yuan/person/year respectively. Comprehensive incentives and health insurance policies in some regions played a role in promoting contracted services.Conclusions:It is necessary to establish the family doctors′ " three roles" management concept, namely health gatekeeper, rights exchanger and resource coordinator; strengthen the professional training and capacity promoting of family doctors, implement the connotation of contracted service fees and economic incentives, in order to play the policy′s basic role in constructing a health-centered system.
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Objective:Based on the policy goals of family doctors′ contracted services, to build an indicator system as policy tools for policy outcomes assessment and policy delivery optimization.Methods:Through literature and policy review, an evaluation conceptual framework was built based on policy goals of family doctors′ contracted services, and an indicator system was established using Delphi method.Results:Upon consultation of 21 experts, an indicator system for policy effect assessment of the family doctors′ contracted services was established, covering both policy implementations and goal effects. This system consisted of 7 level-2 indicators and 23 level-3 indicators.Conclusions:The indicator system oriented to policy goals, ensures the pertinence of policy effect assessment to play a strong guidance on practical implementation of the family doctors′ contracted services.
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Since epileptic seizure is unpredictable and paroxysmal, an automatic system for seizure detecting could be of great significance and assistance to patients and medical staff. In this paper, a novel method is proposed for multichannel patient-specific seizure detection applying the earth mover's distance (EMD) in scalp EEG. Firstly, the wavelet decomposition is executed to the original EEGs with five scales, the scale 3, 4 and 5 are selected and transformed into histograms and afterwards the distances between histograms in pairs are computed applying the earth mover's distance as effective features. Then, the EMD features are sent to the classifier based on the Bayesian linear discriminant analysis (BLDA) for classification, and an efficient postprocessing procedure is applied to improve the detection system precision, finally. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the CHB-MIT scalp EEG database with 958 h EEG recordings from 23 epileptic patients is used and a relatively satisfactory detection rate is achieved with the average sensitivity of 95.65% and false detection rate of 0.68/h. The good performance of this algorithm indicates the potential application for seizure monitoring in clinical practice.
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Objective To evaluate the quality of primary healthcare institutions entrusted to private hospitals as seen by the consumers. Methods The vertical integrated model between Renhe Hospital and Lixian township health center was selected as the case study. Consumer survey data of both November 2016 and September 2017 were collected by using Primary Care Assessment Tool(PCAT) (n=376). Stata 14.0 and Excel 2013 were used for descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression. Results Scoring in such key domains as continuity, comprehensiveness and coordination, and the derivative domains was higher in 2017 than those of 2016. And the differences were significant except for the domain of continuity and coordination (referral). PACT total score in 2017 was 21.28,higher than 19.83 in 2016 and the difference was significant(P<0.01). Conclusions Under the vertical integrated model between Renhe and Lixian, the quality of primary healthcare institutions was improving from 2016 to 2017 from the perspective of consumers. First contact (accessibility), comprehensiveness (services availability) and community orientation of primary healthcare institutions need to be strengthened in the future.
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Objective: On the basis of typical cases, the objective of this study is to assess the service quality of primary healthcare institutions under the vertically integrated model from the perspective of demanding side.Methods: The vertical model between Renhe Hospital and Lixian Township Health Center was selected as the case study.Quantitative data were collected by exit review using Primary health-Care quality service Assessment Tool (PCAT)-Chinese version from the patients seeking services in Lixian.Quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression equations while qualitative data were analyzed by thematic framework analysis.Results: Under the vertical model, the PCAT total score was 20.09.The scores on the first diagnosis, continuity of care, and comprehensiveness of care and coordination of care were 6.59, 3.27, 4.58 and 5.62 respectively.The scores on the three dimensional extensions, family-centered, community-oriented, medical culture were 3.07, 1.86 and 2.67 respectively.The difference was significant for the PCAT total score between a number of visits and the length of waiting time for services in Lixian.Conclusions: Under the vertical model, primary healthcare institutions did better in the first diagnosis while weaker in continuity and the three dimensional extensions.With the development of the integration, the primary healthcare institutions need to strengthen the continuity and downward referral in the future.Future researches and follow-up, analysis is needed to track the impact of the vertically integrated model.
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Objective:To study the chronic disease management’s key factors in community health service insti-tution based on the Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions Framework ( ICCC ) . Methods: The purposive sampling method was adopted. Twelve community health service centers were selected as the field survey sites in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Chengdu. During the key factors description at macro-, meso-and micro-level in the IC-CC framework, thematic framework analysis was used to describe the key factors at maro-, meso-and micro level in the ICCC framework. Results:From the community health institutions’ perspective, the key factors at meso level in the ICCC framework played a better role in the management of chronic conditions while the key factors in both macro and micro level still lacked. Conclusion:Based on the ICCC framework, the management of chronic diseases needs to emphasize the cooperation with relevant departments outside the health area and legislative strategies at macro level, the ability of community supporters to mobilize and coordinate resources at meso level and the improvement of self-management skills for the patients with chronic diseases.
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Objective:To analyze the progress of the contracting service model in community health centers in the typical areas in China, and provide empirical evidence for the hierarchical system targeted to make first contact and orderly dual transfer. Methods: Purposive sampling was adopted. Twelve community health centers in Beijing, Shanghai , Zhengzhou and Chengdu areas where the general practitioner model was conducted earlier and set to be the representative one, were selected as the field survey sites. A thematic framework analysis was used to describe the key factors around the contacting service model. Results:This model was developed around the following key factors:using the general practice team as the main service provider, taking the patients with chronic diseases as the main contracting groups and extending to their family members with the number of contracted ranging around 1500~2000 , freely providing both essential public health and medical services, fully using the family physician room as the con-tracting service platform and highlighting the actively serving concept, building the financial and non-financial incen-tives, health insurance benefits and green transfer mechanisms in order to efficiently guarantee the contracting service development. Conclusions: Based on the information platform, the contracting service model in the sample sites played a great role in the appointment and referral services development as well as the self-health management among residents, improving the relationship between physicians and patients, and promoting the formation of orderly health service pursuing pattern.
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Objective:To explore means of process quality assessment for antibacterial drug utilization among a-cute appendicitis patients under the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme ( NCMS) through the use of the explicit method in order to provide evidence for the rationality of drug utilization in NRCMS. Methods: Data was collected from the NCMS information system of one county in Shandong Province from 2007 to 2011 and included 1 ,721 cases of acute appendicitis in county and town-level hospitals. The explicit method was employed, which adopted the ad-herence rate to represent drug process quality by comparing the actual antibacterial drug utilized with those recom-mended by quality standards. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze quantitative data with Excell2007, Microsoft SQL 2005 and SPSS 17 . 0 . Results: The average overall adherence rate from 2007 to 2011 was 22 . 4% ( SD =22. 3%) at the individual level. The overall adherence rate of township health centers was very low, between 14. 6%and 19. 6%, with no significant difference among the five years. The utilization of cephalosporin drugs was relatively stable at town-level hospitals, that is, third-generation cephalosporins was used most frequently, while cephalosporin, recommended by quality standards, was the least utilized in all five years. At county-level hospitals, fourth-genera-tion drugs were gradually substituted with second and third-generation drugs. Utilization of the recommended drug metronidazole of the nitromidazoles drug group decreased over time at both the town and county-level hospitals, and the drug was gradually substituted by tinidazole and ornidazole, especially in county-level hospitals. Conclusions:From 2007 to 2011 , the rationality of drug utilization was low in the NCMS designated hospitals at both town and county-level hospitals, particularly in town-level hospitals. The underuse of recommended quality standard drugs was the main issue at hand, and this situation experienced no significant changes during the study period.
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Objective:To analyze the structure modes of general practice teams in community health care cen-ters in order to provide empirical evidence for the transformation of the community health service mode. Method:Pur-posive sampling was adopted. Twelve community health service centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Cheng-du, where the transformation of the community health service mode was piloted earlier and representative, were se-lected as the field survey sites. The qualitative method was used to collect the data accompanied by the quantitative method. Results:The structure models of general practice teams could be divided into four types:1) general practi-tioner+nurse+nurse assistant+pharmacist, 2) physician (general practitioner, herbalist physician) +nurse+com-munity volunteers, 3 ) physician ( general practitioner/herbalist physician ) +nurse +assistant +community volun-teers, and 4) general practitioner+nurse+assisting team (professionals of public health and maternal care, etc) +supportive team ( pharmacists, health technician, etc) . Conclusion:The paper verified the common sense conclusion that general practitioners should play an essential role in general practice teamwork. The four general practice team models analyzed above positively contributed to the improvement of efficiency and quality, the relationship between health professionals and patients, the promotion of community participation, and the combination between preventive care and clinical care.
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Objective:To analyze the concerning guarantee mechanisms during the transformation of the com-munity health service mode. Method:Purposive sampling was adopted. Twelve community health service centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu, where the transformation of the community health service mode was pi-loted earlier and representative, were selected as the field survey sites. The qualitative method was used to collect da-ta accompanied by the quantitative method. Results: The guarantee mechanisms related to the transformation of the community health service mode could be concluded into four main types:collaboration mechanism, health profession-al training mechanism, incentive mechanism, and policy guarantee mechanism. All of the four mechanisms contribu-ted to the improvement of general teamwork, dual referral systems, and the development of contract and appointment services. Conclusion:During the transformation of the community health service mode, priority strategies include top-down design, health professional training mechanisms, and performance-based incentive mechanism, all of which should be implemented in the future.
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Objective: To explore the utilization and effects of informatization in perfecting the community health service mode. Method:Through purposive sampling, 12 community health service centers in Beijing, Shang-hai, Chengdu, and Zhengzhou were selected for site investigation. The heads of the health administrative department and community health service centers were interviewed, with a focus on the construction and utilization of the local community health informatization and a discussion of the role of informatization in perfecting the community health service mode. Results:The information systems can be divided into core systems, core auxiliary systems, and periph-eral support systems. Informatization provides strong support to perfecting the community health service mode in opti-mizing the service process, improving work efficiency, strengthening institutional cooperation, promoting quality regu-lation, optimizing performance appraisal, and strengthening doctor-patient interaction. Conclusion: Informatization plays a key role in perfecting the community health service mode. Recommendations were proposed to strengthen community health informatization construction and utilization:optimizing service processes, promoting the efficient co-ordination of safe health services, optimizing performance appraisals, and strengthening doctor-patient interaction.
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The health care system has always faced challenges from two competing fronts: rising costs and quality concerns. The common issue of debate confronted by various health care systems is whether or not rising medi-cal expenditure can lead to quality improvements. The key to addressing this issue is to figure out the correlation be-tween quality of care and medical expenditure. Based on Donabedian’s structure, process and outcome quality theory, this study reviews relevant international studies related to this topic in order to provide empirical evidence in a clearer way. Results show that the analysis of current studies have typically been based on the regional level, health provider level and patient level; the quality indicators used varied among studies while expenditure indicators had much in common;more studies were found to focus on the association between outcome quality and expenditure while less studies explored the link between structure or process quality and expenditure; additionally, the majority of relevant studies were located in the inpatient setting and studies from outpatient settings were found to be lacking. Overall, ac-cording to current knowledge, no inclusive conclusion could be obtained, but quality indicators, data and methods, and limitations revealed in these studies can be reviewed by future study to explore the correlation between quality and expenditure of medical care in a more objective way.
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Objective To probe into the employment and turnover changes of health workers at township health centers,for analysis of the incentive preferences and methods characteristic of such people.Methods Questionnaire and interview investigations were made for 16 health centers to learn their personnel turnover from 2008 to 2010 in Junan county,Shandong province,and to learn their incentive preferences.Results Health workers of turnover tendency are mostly found among women,clinicians and nurses of college or above degree and those less than 39 years old.The top five incentive factors for such health workers are as follows:better working environment; better pay; better security for living; better hospital management; and better career development opportunities.Conclusion Township health centers should seize policy support of the health reform,by focusing on not only economic incentives such as the income and living conditions of health workers of turnover tendency,but also on non-economic factors such as career development opportunities.