Compensation in exchange for medical services is characterized as a unity of economic relations between medical institutions and funding side in exchange for the expenses of compensation during the provision of medical services. Compensation refers to compensation for expenses of the organization, not the individual departments and nor the medical worker [1-3]. In 1999 in the primary healthcare...

Background Complementing the view of treatment professionals and health care experts, the perspective of mentally ill patients themselves on the treatment they receive is a relevant factor in mental health care. Today, the satisfaction of these patients with their treatment is seen as a central aspect of service quality. Patient satisfaction has become an important component of psychiatric ment...

In recent years, the performance-based approach to contracting for medical services has been gaining popularity across different healthcare delivery systems, both in the United States (under the name of “pay for performance”) and abroad (“payment by results” in the United Kingdom). The goal of our research is to build a unified performance-based contracting (PBC) framework that incorporates pat...

BACKGROUND The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in rural China has been expanding in both population coverage and benefit package. China has also established an essential medicine policy in recent years to further reduce patients' medical expenditures and financial burden. This study aims to evaluate the impact of these policies on reducing medical expenditures and financial burden of pati...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with general satisfaction among clients attending outpatient clinics in a referral hospital in Uganda. DESIGN Cross-sectional exit survey of patients and care-givers in selected outpatient clinics. SETTING Seven outpatients' clinics at Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Mean score of clients' general satisfaction ...

BACKGROUND Estimates of the relative contributions of physicians, physician assistants (PAs), and nurse practitioners (NPs) toward rural primary care are needed to inform workforce planning activities aimed at reducing rural primary shortages. OBJECTIVES For each provider group, this study quantifies the average weekly number of outpatient primary care visits and the types of services provide...

BACKGROUND Over 90% of outpatient care in China was delivered at public hospitals, making outpatient experience in this setting an important aspect of quality of care. OBJECTIVE To assess outpatient experience with different aspects of physician services at China's public hospitals and its association with overcrowding of the hospital outpatient departments. RESEARCH DESIGN Retrospective an...

This study aims to estimate the volume of unnecessarily utilized hospital outpatient services in Korea and quantify the total cost resulting from the inappropriate utilization. The analysis included a sample of 27,320,505 outpatient claims from the 2009 National Inpatient Sample database. Using the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), patients were considered to have received 'unnecessary hospital...