Our hospital's practice of letting patients pick their doctors
- VernacularTitle:医院实行病人选择医生的实践
- Author:
Zhi DU
;
Xinli ZHENG
;
Li ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Choice of doctors by patients;
Hospital
- From:
Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration
1996;0(06):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
After an account of the background to the practice of letting patients pick their doctors in the Third Central Hospital of Tianjin, the paper points out the positive impact of the practice, comments on the specific measures, and narrates the results that have been achieved. These include: ①enhanced awareness of self management on the part of the staff; ②increased cohesion of the hospital; ③higher efficiency; ④greater initiative on the part of the scientific and technical personnel as a result of the reform; ⑤social recognition of the reform; and ⑥a higher level of professional ethics building. Lastly the paper discusses the hospitals experience in adopting the practice of letting patients pick their doctors.
