Short-term and long-term effects of Sanming healthcare system reform on drug-related expenditures for rural patients with cancer in public hospitals: an interrupted time series analysis using segmented regression model in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effects of 'Sanming model' on drug-related expenditures.

Design

Interrupted time series analysis with two time points was conducted to analyse the effects of 'Sanming model' using segmented regression model.

Setting

Two hundred and eighty public hospitals in Fujian province in China.

Participants

A total of 777 171 inpatients and 792 743 outpatients with cancer who participated in New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) were included.

Interventions

'Sanming model' was issued by Sanming government in February 2013 and spread to other cities in Fujian province in January 2015.

Primary outcome measures

Four drug-related expenditure variables.

Results

Among inpatients, total drug expenditures and drug expenditures

SUBMITTER: Fu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9827248 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature