Hospital quality of care appraisal based on the 2012 medical record front page / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore an evaluation method of quality of care using the 2012 medical record front page.Methods The admission pathway and discharge method information of inpatients discharge recorded in the medical record front pages of the hospital were chosen and evaluated with contingency tables.Results The outcomes indicated that the differences between discharge methods of those admitted through different pathways are significant statistically (x2 =856.55,P ＜ 0.05).The correlation analysis showed that the coefficient of Spearman correlation between the inpatients admitted through different pathways and their discharge methods was -0.11 (P＜0.05).Calculated as such,the score of quality of care was 4.95 for the hospital as a whole.Conclusion The establishment of this evaluation system showed that the indicators set for quality of care using the 2012 medical record front page are scientific,and the results are more objective.