Building of the medical capacity evaluation system using DRGs-related indexes in clinical departments and its tests

Abstract

Objective To build a complete medical capability evaluation system for hospital's clinical departments,based on the data of a public general hospital in Beijing,using simplified DRGs-related indexes as a risk-adjustment tool.Methods Select with literature review,corresponding medical capacity evaluation indexes to build a primary index data base,and establish the evaluation index system of clinical medical indexes of a hospital based on DRGs analysis using Delphi method and AHP method.Conduct the sequence comparison and paired t test using the evaluation method mentioned above as well as the traditional evaluation method.Results Establishing the evaluation system of medical ability for clinical departments composed of 3 first level indexes and 12 two level indexes based on DRGs related indicators The 3 composing first level indexes are productivity,efficiency and quality whose corresponding weighting coefficients were 0.363,0.479,0.158 respectively.Outcomes of the sequence comparison from both this method and the traditional method are basically the same,and the paired t test shows no significant difference between the two.Conclusion This evaluation system facilitates data collection and accurately indicate the medical capacity of a hospital's clinical department,making it an ideal tool for hospital's day-to-day management. Key words: DRGs; Medical capacity; Evaluation