1.Evaluation of the Impact of Subspecialty Reform on the Core Medical Operation Indicators of a Clinical Department
Xiaohan LIU ; Chenyang SHE ; Jiaqi CAI ; Xiaohong GAI ; Hongwei CAI
Chinese Hospital Management 2023;43(12):45-48
Objective To evaluate the impact of hepatobiliary surgery in a tertiary public hospital on its core medical operation indicators after the implementation of subspecialty reform.Methods The Department of Hepatobiliary Sur-gery,which implemented the subspecialty reform,was the experimental group,and six surgical departments with-out subspecialties were the control group.Seven indicators in the dimensions of medical quality,medical efficiency,and rational use of medication were collected from September to December 2022,and the difference between the experimental group and the control group was analyzed by the differences-in-differences method using the Septem-ber data before the implementation of sub-specialty reform as the baseline value.Results After the subspecialty re-form,the changes of the indicators of the percentage of discharged patients for surgery,intensity of antimicrobial drug use and average hospital stay in hepatobiliary surgery were better than those of the control group;the percentage of discharged patients for minimally invasive surgery and the percentage of medical service revenue were inferior to those of the control group;the intergroup differences of the two indicators of the percentage of discharged patients for level IV surgery and the case-mix index were not significant.Conclusion By setting up similar control departments in the same period and excluding the influence of external confounding factors on the study results,overall,the core medical operation indexes of hepatobiliary surgery were slightly better than those of the control group,but the advantage was not obvious,which might be related to the short observation time after the subspecialty reform,and its long-term effects need to be continuously followed up and analyzed.
2.Interpretation of updated NCCN clinical practice guidelines for lung cancer screening (version 2. 2022)
Haojie SI ; Long XU ; Fang WANG ; Hang SU ; Yunlang SHE ; Chenyang DAI ; Xuefei HU ; Deping ZHAO ; Yuming ZHU ; Peng ZHANG ; Gening JIANG ; Chang CHEN
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2022;29(11):1407-1413
Lung cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death in China. Early screening of lung cancer proves to be effective in improving its prognosis. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has updated and released version 2, 2022 NCCN clinical practice guidelines for lung cancer screening in July, 2022. Based on high-quality clinical evidence and the latest research progress, the guidelines have developed and updated criteria for lung cancer screening which have been widely recognized by clinicians around the world. Compared with Chinese lung cancer screening guidelines, this article will interpret the updated content of the brand new 2022 NCCN screening guidelines, providing some reference for the current lung cancer screening practice in our country.