Objective Using principal components analysis and weighted TOPSIS method to make objective and accurate evaluation of hospital operation management quality.This aims at proving whether such methods are scientific and feasible for comprehensive evaluation for the quality of hospital operation management and providing the basis for hospital decision making.Methods 15 typical Hospital Performance Indicators were chosen from a cancer hospital during 2008-2012,which were subject to TOPSIS method and principal components analysis,weighted TOPSIS method for comprehensive evaluation.Results The results with principal components analysis and weighted TOPSIS method conform to the actual hospital conditions and prove the rising quality of operation management of the hospital.That is,the closer the date,the higher the ranking.Conclusion Principal components analysis and weighted TOPSIS method are proven flexible,practical,scientific and reliable and suitable for popularization and application in the quality evaluation of hospital operation management.

Compared to the mature monitoring and reporting system of ADRs in developed countries such as the USA and EU,medical institutions in China have played too much a role.Instead,local primary monitoring and reporting system of ADRs should expand their scope of monitoring and reporting,as drug makers,chain drugstores and retailers should develop an effective ADR monitor/report system as well.At present,such a primary system is plagued by insufficient budget and staff,imbalanced urban/rural layout and defective statements.Recommended measures include enhanced surveillance for drug makers,chain drugstores and retailers,for higher reporting ratio of ADRs at primary level; greater publicity and better monitoring and penalty mechanism; better platform for various organizations.

Building a systematic public welfare evaluation index system for public hospitals is key to scientific evaluation of the public welfare positioning of public hospitals and enhancing their public benefit orientation,along with references for government decision making on macro health policies.The indexes were screened and pinpointed in two rounds of Delphi expert consultations,and index weights were determined with the variation coefficient method,initially building a public welfare performance evaluation index system for such hospitals,including eight class-1 indexes and 20 class-2 indexes.Outcomes of the system prove that the public welfare performance indexes of the two hospitals evaluated rise year by year from 2008 to 2010.

Adherence to public welfare and mobilizing incentives are key to promoting the health reform,and making it a success as well.It is imperative to comprehensively and correctly comprehend the importance of mobilizing medical workers in ensuring the reform a success,based on the present practice of the health reform and by views of philosophy,economics,and management.These principles should be followed in the design and perfection of the reform mechanism.

The paper described practices in QC management pathway of death cases of the hospital.These refer to intensive education,clarification of access standard,death cases quarterly readings and administrative investigation,strict supervision among others.Authors pointed out that QC pathway can improve quality of care significantly,yet QC pathway calls for fair accountability,systemic care for patient safety,and all-staff involvement in QC improvement.

The paper introduced the basic theory of outcome evaluation of media coverage,as well as hospital news and reports analysis methods and attitude measurement methods based on the frame theory and appraisal theory.In addition,the authors made a case study of hospital reports.Authors found that these methods can estimate public opinions,media hotspots and media cooperation based on statistics of news topics,information source,attitudes,reporting media and reprints,for reference of the hospital on its news report and communications.

Objective To analyze allocation of health resources and utilization of health services,and evaluate the equity of health resources allocation and health services utilization.Methods Concentration curve and concentration index(CI)were used to evaluate the equity of health resources allocation in terms of health professionals,hospital beds,medical institutions,outpatient visits and hospitalizations in China.Results The CI for health professionals,hospital beds,and medical institutions is 0.038,-0.012,and-0.116 respectively.That for outpatient visits and hospitalizations is 0.111 and -0.023 respectively.Conclusion Health resources allocation in hospital beds and health professionals is fair,while the equity of medical institutions and outpatient service utilization needs to be improved.

Objective To explore how to determine the designated hospitals for critical illness scientifically and reasonably.Methods Analyzing the choice of medical providers by inpatients with critical illness,by means of the database of NRCMS in 2009～2010 in one county,Guangxi province.And analyzing the current policies on the basis of general principals used in health policy analysis.Results The choices of medical providers made by inpatients with critical illness are influenced by various factors.Choice of such hospitals should only be dependent on scientific and reasonable determination of patients' reasonable medical needs,instead of on the medical competency of the hospitals only.Conclusion Maximal cost-effectiveness should prevail,be it the class-1 demand of complete healing which is highly dependent on medical technology,or class-2 demand requiring repeated hospitalizations and not highly dependent on medical technology.Reasonable designation of hospitals for critical illness should be based on reasonable medical needs of patients,instead of medical competency of hospitals only.

Objective Discuss the methodology and significance of clinical transfusion assessment,establish an effective evaluation system for blood transfusion,identify rational indexes for the evaluation,and promote quality of clinical transfusion.Methods Development of the clinical blood transfusion assessment regulations,tightened blood transfusion approval system,enhanced medical record check for blood transfusion,better statistics for the data collected,and analysis of data in 2012 to compare changes in blood volume before and after tighter management in place.These efforts aim at improving the assessment system for optimal clinical blood transfusion.Results Compared to Jan.-June in 2012,patients discharged and surgical cases in Dec.of the same year dropped 2.15％ and 0.73％ respectively.However,the volume of blood transfusion decreased 22.7％,the percentage of blood transfusion for inpatients decreased from 8.78％ to 7.17％,and the average use of blood for inpatients decreased from 0.73U to 0.57U.Conclusion Reasonable and scientific assessment for blood transfusion and better clinical blood use management can improve blood transfusion therapeutic efficacy and save blood resources.

Logistics supplies are essential for normal operations of hospitals,while effective management of hospital suppliers is key to optimizing the materials supplies.An evaluation system is built for both key suppliers and standby suppliers respectively.Based on such a system,a dynamic management mechanism is built to provide long-lasting supplier incentives,for competitive selection and elimination of the suppliers.These efforts enable the hospitals to pick the best suppliers by means of systems and regulations.