Development of a performance measurement system for general practitioners' office in China's primary healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

General practitioners are the main providers of primary care services. To better strengthen the important role of general practitioners in primary healthcare services, China is promoting the general practitioners' office system. There is a lack of well-accepted methods to measure the performance of general practitioner offices in China. We thus aim to develop a systematic and operable performance measurement system for evaluating the general practitioner's office.

Methods

We establish an index pool of the performance measurement system of general practitioners' offices by a cross-sectional study and the literature research method and adopt the focus group method to establish the preliminary system. The Delphi method is then used to conduct three rounds of consulta

SUBMITTER: Ruan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9491001 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature