A comparative study of patients' satisfaction with different levels of hospitals in Beijing: why do patients prefer high-level hospitals?

ABSTRACT:

Background

To promote the integration of medical resources, Beijing has built medical alliances since 2012, but this reform has not changed the state of disordered medical treatment. Patients are still willing to go to high-level hospitals for medical treatment. What causes patients to prefer high-level hospitals? To explore the reasons behind this preference for high-level medical treatment among patients and to guide patients to make visits in an orderly manner, we conducted this study and compared patients' satisfaction with hospitals of different levels in the context of medical resource integration.

Methods

This study conducted a questionnaire survey among 1250 patients who were selected in 18 medical alliances in Beijing from October to December 2016. The study type is

SUBMITTER: Cui C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7350561 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature