Analysis of clinicians' attitude towards the “Drug and Medical Service Separation” reform in Beijing / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To learn the clinicians'attitude towards the “Drug and Medical Service Separation” reform in Beijing.Methods A number of pilot hospitals of “Drug and Medical Service Separation” reform in Beijing were pinpointed,for a random questionnaires survey among 800 clinicians,to learn their awareness,evaluation and attitudes to the reform.Results The clinicians were found with good awareness and understanding of the reform,with an awareness rate of 99.5％ ; 72.0％ of them hold that the pricing of “medical service charge” of the reform as reasonable; most of them believe that the reform plays a positive role in relieving the difficulties of seeing doctors and affordability of medical treatment; their approval rate for the reform pilot project is 97.3％; their satisfaction for the reform implementation is 90.8％,and their support for full implementation of the reform is 94.0％.Conclusion The clinicians from those pilot hospitals are sufficiently aware of and understand this policy,and are supportive of the pilot with useful suggestions.The recommended strengthened publicity and training,higher medical service charges,better pay for medical workers,improved incentive mechanism and evaluation mechanism,and better clinicians' satisfaction.