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Objective To learn the needs of family physicians for tertiary hospital support in the hierarchical medical system. Methods In July 2017 cluster sampling was made to 135 family physicians of Changning district of Shanghai for a " Family physicians needs questionnaire" . It covered such aspects as their demographic characteristics and their needs. The data so acquired were subject to descriptive and logical analysis. Results 99.3% of them need preferential appointment of specialists at tertiary hospitals;93.3% of them need preferential appointment of examinations; 82.2% of them need preferential outpatient visits; while 83.7% of them need preferential hospitalization and surgery scheduling. In terms of the approaches for preferential appointment of specialists, 84.4% of them prefer specialist appointment at short notice, and 73.3% of them need direct online appointment for large-scale device examinations at tertiary hospitals. In terms of mentoring scenarios, 62.2% of them prefer mentoring during outpatient rounds at fixed schedules of specialists in their community. Conclusions Tertiary hospitals are recommended to establish green pathways for referrals and priority measures in order to improve capabilities of family physicians and the shared platform in the hierarchical medical network. They are also expected to guide family physicians in their research paper writing, thus fully supporting the hierarchical medical system.
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Taking Dafeng county of Jiangsu province as a pilot, this paper analyzed the mechanism of the family physicians′contracted service for achieving the hierarchical medical system. Such a system is designed to promote the contracted service of family physicians, comprising health management, convenient medical treatment, opinion leader, IT-based power, and capability enhancement. Authors of the paper rounded up data of the sample township from 2015 to 2017, and the practical effect of the family physicians′contracted service in promoting the hierarchical medical system. Their recommendations include:currently focusing on targeted groups and population of chronic diseases; elevating the contracting rate of pregnant women and children; motivating countywide medical communities in the promotion of the family physicians′contracted service, for joint efforts in developing the hierarchical medical system; leveraging the showcase of Dafeng for achieving the hierarchical medical system fitting local needs.