Containing medical expenditure: lessons from reform of Beijing public hospitals

Beijing’s reforms have succeeded in reducing hospitals’ reliance on drug sales and shifting patients to primary care, say Xiaoyun Liu and colleagues

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2019-06, Vol.365, p.l2369-l2369
Main Authors: Liu, Xiaoyun, Xu, Jin, Yuan, Beibei, Ma, Xiaochen, Fang, Hai, Meng, Qingyue
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
China
Chinese medicine
Chronic illnesses
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Delivery of Health Care - legislation & jurisprudence
Expenditures
Fees & charges
Government Regulation
Health care policy
Health Care Reform - economics
Health Care Reform - legislation & jurisprudence
Health Expenditures - trends
Health facilities
Health Policy - economics
Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
Hospitals
Hospitals, Public - economics
Hospitals, Public - legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Incentives
Medical imaging
Motivation
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Pharmaceuticals
Physicians
Preliminary Data
Prices
Primary Health Care - economics
Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Profits
Reforms
Tomography
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Summary:Beijing’s reforms have succeeded in reducing hospitals’ reliance on drug sales and shifting patients to primary care, say Xiaoyun Liu and colleagues
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.l2369