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Objective:To analyze the supervision mode and problems of intensive countywide medical communities and explore the methods and strategies to improve their supervision system.Methods:From March 2022 to May 2022, a stratified random sampling method was used and the intensive countywide medical communities in the province were selected for field study. In-depth interviews were made with the staff of the healthcare administration departments and health insurance agencies affiliated with intensive countywide medical communities, directors of general hospitals, directors of township hospitals, and heads of functional departments. These interviews mainly covered the principal entities of countywide medical community supervision, supervision measures and contents, supervision effects, supervision weaknesses, and how to improve internal and external supervision mechanisms. The interviews results were analyzed using thematic framework analysis and the data were subject to a descriptive analysis.Results:23 persons of five intensive countywide medical communities were selected for key person interview. The finalized framework of regulatory elements of intensive countywide medical communities consists of such five general themes as regulatory subjects, regulatory content, regulatory measures, regulatory effectiveness and existing problems, comprising 14 level-1 indicators and 52 level-2 indicators. The main regulatory bodies were mainly government departments (15 times), the regulatory content was focused on medical resources (10 times), the regulatory measures cover specific regulations (4 times), specific activities (4 times) and assessment and evaluation (4 times). And the regulatory effectiveness demonstrated a currently strong regulation strength of medical communities (5 times), and the existing problems were insufficient government supervision (12 times), difficulties encountered by social forces in their supervision (11 times) and internal governance (5 times).Conclusions:The supervision system of intensive countywide medical communities should be optimized by improving the governmental supervision mechanism, inviting supervision of social forces and building an effective internal governance.
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Objective:To construct future-oriented theoretical management model for medical quality and patient safety.Methods:Procedure grounded theory was applied to code data including 30 expert interview records from July 2021 to June 2022 and the qualitative analysis results of 71 core literatures in Chinese and English, and then the theoretical model was constructed.Results:After three-level coding, 555 reference points, 249 initial concepts, 41 categories, 27 main categories and 7 core categories related to medical quality and safety management were sorted out, and the theoretical model of SQ (I-SPORT) matrix for medical quality and safety management was constructed. This model extended the traditional dimension in quality and safety management.Conclusions:Regarding medical quality and safety management, on one hand, should focus on the systematic improvement of structure, process, results, reengineering, education and training in terms of management functions; on the other hand, it is necessary to improve the organization, employees, resources, technology and tools, and patient experience in terms of management elements.
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Objective:To construct a theoretical model of medical quality and safety management based on the current situation of medical quality and safety management mode in China, providing reference for continuous improvement of medical quality and safety management.Methods:The CNKI database was used as the data source to search literature, with a high citation index H=38 as the judgment standard, the core literature related to the quality and safety management in China was selected. Based on the structure-process-outcome (SPO) model, Nvivo qualitative analysis software was used to code and analyze the included literature, sort out the relevant elements of China′s medical quality and safety management, and clarify the logical relationship between the elements, forming a generalized SPO model of China′s medical quality and safety management.Results:Through a systematic summary and review of relevant literature, a generalized SPO model for medical quality and safety management was proposed, including 5 structural elements (organizational structure, personnel management, resource management, informatization, management standards), 2 process elements (management methods, service processes), and 3 outcome elements (patient outcomes, employee outcomes, organizational results). The logical relationships between and within the three major elements were constructed.Conclusions:To improve the level of medical quality and safety management in China, the structural dimension should be focused on clarifying the responsibilities of the main body of quality management, establishing an independent and perfect quality control department, strengthening the investment and construction of information technology, and promoting the implementation of the medical quality management standard; the process dimension should be focused on promoting the rational application of quality management tools; and the outcome dimension should be focused on strengthening the management of patient safety and improving the individual satisfaction.
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Objective:To provide reference for the sustainable development of county medical communities through analyzing key issues in the construction of such communities in China.Methods:Such Database websites as CNKI, Wanfang Data and VIP Information were selected to retrieve journal papers and dissertations with the keywords of " county medical community" " county medical alliance" " county medical and health community" and " medical alliance" . The time period ranged from the establishment of the database to December 2021. Content analysis and social network analysis were used to classify and sort key issues of county medical community construction in the included literature, and the descriptive analysis was used for all the data.Results:274 literatures were obtained in this study, 82 high-frequency issues were extracted for the construction process of county medical communities. It was divided into 3 dimensions of service system, operation mechanism and fund guarantee, including 14 items of integration of resources, integrated management, resource intensification, information construction, medical services, medical quality, family doctors, public health, management system, personnel system, salary system, supervision mechanism, medical insurance fund and financial input. The results of social network analysis showed that the top three high-frequency issues of point centrality and intermediary centrality were lack of highly unified information exchange platform (107.00, 514.48), insufficient service capacity of primary medical institutions (61.00, 238.48) and lack of sustainable benefit distribution mechanism (45.00, 192.38).Conclusions:The construction of county medical community covered three aspects: medical service system, operation mechanism and fund guarantee.The shortage of primary medical service capacity, the lack of coordination of an information platform, the general shortage of essential drugs, the imperfect internal assessment and incentive system, the imperfect supervision system and the imperfect medical insurance supporting policy becomed the main roadblocks in building county medical communities in China. In order to promote the sustainable development of county medical community, the authors recommend to further upgrade the county integrated medical service system, perfect the operation mechanism, and strengthen the input into county health care.