Exploration on the management path of home-based aging-medical care integration of family doctor teams / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Under the background that the family doctor teams undertake the evaluation function of long-term care insurance for the elderlies living at home, it is imperative to further improve the efficiency of its integrated aging-medical care by strengthening the management. The Huacao community health service center and Hongqiao community health service center in Minhang District of Shanghai explored the construction of a family doctor′s home-based aging care management path, a practice launched since February 2021. This path was mainly designed with the entry criteria, management requirements for various services and evaluation indicators, with a service path form formulated on such basis. The form covered three stages that before the on-site service, that on the day of the on-site service and that after the on-site service. Each stage was subdivided into three dimensions the work content of the main aging-medical care, the key works of family doctors and the key works of assistant nurses. The implementation of this management path can enable such teams to provide further refined, standardized and procedural aging-medical care services, avoid service delays, improve service quality and management efficiency, and improve the utilization efficiency of health resources.