Does information disclosure among public hospitals stimulate medical cost change efforts? A pilot study in Shanghai.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2013, the Shanghai Hospital Development Center issued a policy to advocate public hospitals to report their information about costs on diseases. The objective was to evaluate the impact of interhospital disclosure of costs on diseases on medical costs and compare costs per case following information disclosure between hospitals of different rankings.

Methods

The study uses the hospital-level performance report issued by Shanghai Hospital Development Center in the fourth quarter of 2013, which covers quarterly aggregated hospital-level discharge data from 14 tertiary public hospitals participating in thyroid malignant tumors and colorectal malignant tumors information disclosure from the first quarter of 2012 to the third quarter of 2020. An interrupted time ser

SUBMITTER: Chen YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10210391 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature