Abstract
While integrated health care system has been proved an effective way to help improving patient health and system efficiency, the exact behaviour model and motivation approach are not so clear in poor rural areas where health human resources and continuous service provision are urgently needed. To gather solid evidence, we initiated a comprehensive intervention project in Qianjiang District, southwest part of rural China in 2012. And after one-year's pilot, we developed an intervention package of team service, comprehensive pathway and prospective- and performance-based payment system. To testify the potential influence of payment interventions, we use clustered randomised controlled trial, 60 clusters are grouped into two treatment groups and one control group to compare the time and group differences. Difference-in-differences model and structural equation modelling will be used to analyse the intervention effects and pathway. The outcomes are: quality of care, disease burden, supplier cooperative behaviour and patient utilisation behaviour and system efficiency. Repeated multivariate variance analysis will be used to statistically examine the outcome differences. This is the first trial of its kind to prove the effects and efficiency of integrated care. Though we adopted randomised controlled trial to gather the highest rank of evidence, still the fully randomisation was hard to realise in health policy reform experiment. To compensate, the designer should take efforts on control for the potential confounders as much as possible. With this trial, we assume the effects will come from: (1) improvement on the quality of life through risk factors control and lifestyles change on patient's behaviours; (2) improvement on quality of care through continuous care and coordinated supplier behaviours; (3) improvement on the system efficiency through active interaction between suppliers and patients. The integrated care system needs collaborative work from different levels of caregivers. So it is extremely important to consider the supplier cooperative behaviour. In this trial, we introduced payment system to help the delivery system integration through providing financial incentives to motivate people to play their roles. Also, the multidisciplinary team, the multi-institutional pathway and system global budget and pay-for-performance payment system could afford as a solution.
Highlights
BackgroundHealth care delivery must continuously evolve and adapt to the changing context in coordination with the social and economic development, which constantly result in the demographic/epidemiology transition and disease burden shifting
We introduced payment system to help the delivery system integration through providing financial incentives to motivate people to play their roles
The multidisciplinary team, the multi-institutional pathway and system global budget and pay-for-performance payment system could afford as a solution
Summary
Health care delivery must continuously evolve and adapt to the changing context in coordination with the social and economic development, which constantly result in the demographic/epidemiology transition and disease burden shifting. One of the major changes in rural areas these years is the rapid increase of chronic prevalence, causing huge pressure on patients and on the health resources. Integrated care has been proved an effective way to improve health outcomes since the new millennium. While integrated health care system has been proved an effective way to help improving patient health and system efficiency, the exact behaviour model and motivation approach are not so clear in poor rural areas where health human resources and continuous service provision are urgently needed. After one-year’s pilot, we developed an intervention package of team service, comprehensive pathway and prospective- and performance-based payment system
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