ABSTRACT
After an account of the background to the practice of letting patients pick their doctors in the Third Central Hospital of Tianjin, the paper points out the positive impact of the practice, comments on the specific measures, and narrates the results that have been achieved. These include: ①enhanced awareness of self management on the part of the staff; ②increased cohesion of the hospital; ③higher efficiency; ④greater initiative on the part of the scientific and technical personnel as a result of the reform; ⑤social recognition of the reform; and ⑥a higher level of professional ethics building. Lastly the paper discusses the hospitals experience in adopting the practice of letting patients pick their doctors.
ABSTRACT
Firstly the paper expounds the fact that letting patients pick their doctors goes with the tide of social development: ①the connotation of medical quality determines the necessity of patients involvement; ②evaluation of medical quality has extended from self appraisal to social assessment; and ③the mechanism of letting patients pick their doctors conforms to the medical quality requirements of the times. Then the paper discusses the positive impact of letting patients pick their doctors on medical quality, including the choice of doctors by outpatients and the impossibility of doing so in medico technical and emergency departments or by inpatients. The paper also gives an account of the measures taken for safeguarding medical quality when adopting the practice of letting patients pick their doctors. Lastly the paper explains the boosting role of the practice and the difference between letting patients pick their doctors and letting them name particular surgeons for their operations.