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The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China
BACKGROUND: The goal of this paper was to assess the quality of primary healthcare services at community health centres (CHCs) from the demand (patient) and supplier (healthcare service institution) angles. METHODS: This study was conducted at six CHCs in the Greater Bay Area of China. Between Augus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8404182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34461910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01538-8 |
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author | Liu, RuQing Shi, Leiyu Meng, YiFan He, Ning Wu, JingLan Yan, XinWen Hu, RuWei |
author_facet | Liu, RuQing Shi, Leiyu Meng, YiFan He, Ning Wu, JingLan Yan, XinWen Hu, RuWei |
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description | BACKGROUND: The goal of this paper was to assess the quality of primary healthcare services at community health centres (CHCs) from the demand (patient) and supplier (healthcare service institution) angles. METHODS: This study was conducted at six CHCs in the Greater Bay Area of China. Between August and October 2019, 1,568 patients were recruited (55.8% women and 44.2% men). We evaluated the service quality of CHCs using the National Committee for Quality Assurance Patient-Centred Medical Home (NCQA-PCMH) recognition questionnaire. We assessed patients’ experiences with medical and health services using the Primary Care Assessment Tools (PCAT). RESULTS: PCAT total and sub-domains scores were significantly difference at the six CHCs (P < 0.001). Among the six CHCs, Shayuan CHC had the highest PCAT total and sub-domain scores and the highest NCQA-PCMH total and sub-domain scores, as well. Older (> 60 years), female, lower education, and employee medical-insured individuals had better patient experiences. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that CHCs could improve their service quality by improving both institutional health service quality based on NCQA-PCMH assessment and patient experiences based on PCAT scales. These findings can help inform patient-centred primary healthcare policy and management. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12939-021-01538-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-84041822021-08-30 The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China Liu, RuQing Shi, Leiyu Meng, YiFan He, Ning Wu, JingLan Yan, XinWen Hu, RuWei Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: The goal of this paper was to assess the quality of primary healthcare services at community health centres (CHCs) from the demand (patient) and supplier (healthcare service institution) angles. METHODS: This study was conducted at six CHCs in the Greater Bay Area of China. Between August and October 2019, 1,568 patients were recruited (55.8% women and 44.2% men). We evaluated the service quality of CHCs using the National Committee for Quality Assurance Patient-Centred Medical Home (NCQA-PCMH) recognition questionnaire. We assessed patients’ experiences with medical and health services using the Primary Care Assessment Tools (PCAT). RESULTS: PCAT total and sub-domains scores were significantly difference at the six CHCs (P < 0.001). Among the six CHCs, Shayuan CHC had the highest PCAT total and sub-domain scores and the highest NCQA-PCMH total and sub-domain scores, as well. Older (> 60 years), female, lower education, and employee medical-insured individuals had better patient experiences. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that CHCs could improve their service quality by improving both institutional health service quality based on NCQA-PCMH assessment and patient experiences based on PCAT scales. These findings can help inform patient-centred primary healthcare policy and management. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12939-021-01538-8. BioMed Central 2021-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8404182/ /pubmed/34461910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01538-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Liu, RuQing Shi, Leiyu Meng, YiFan He, Ning Wu, JingLan Yan, XinWen Hu, RuWei The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China |
title | The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China |
title_full | The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China |
title_fullStr | The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China |
title_full_unstemmed | The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China |
title_short | The institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in Chinese community health centres: results from the Greater Bay Area study, China |
title_sort | institutional primary healthcare service quality and patients’ experiences in chinese community health centres: results from the greater bay area study, china |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8404182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34461910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01538-8 |
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