Abstract
Objective Probing into a way to reform the assessment indexing of diagnosis and treatment in clinical specialties, to help with objective assessment and ranking among hospitals in terms of the performances of their respective specialties. Methods Treatment outcomes of the diseases pinpointed by heart physicians and urology surgeons of three hospitals in 2005 as the criteria to calculate the adjusted value for fatality rate and cure rate. Results The adjusted value of fatality rate for the heart physicians is CFR≥1, and that of cure rate for the urology surgeons is CFR≤1. A trial assessment is made based on these figures, and a ranking is achieved on the diagnosis and treatment outcomes of the clinical medicine specialties in these three hospitals as a result. Conclusions Diseases as the assessment levels for medical quality of clinical medicine specialties and relative risks as the core computation adjusted factor, may help yield the indexes and methodology for clinical medicine specialties in line with China's specifics. Key words: Medical quality; Outcomes; Assessment; Index
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