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Objective:To analyze the impact of Beijing Medical Reform on inpatient costs of medical and surgical patients in a hospital, and to provide reference for the hospital to explore the path of patient cost control.Methods:Based on the data of medical and surgical inpatients′ expenses from June 2016 to December 2019 in a hospital in Beijing, breakpoint regression method was used to analyze the impact of the two reforms(namely the comprehensive reform of separation of medicine and pharmacy and the comprehensive reform of medical consumption linkage)on the level of medical and surgical inpatients′ expenses and the cost structure of drugs and consumables.Results:The two reforms controlled the rapid rise of hospitalization expenses and reduced the proportion of drugs and medical consumption. The effect of the reforms on the total cost control of internal medical patients was better than that of surgical patients.For internal medical patients, the reform of separation of medicine and pharmacy played a greater role in the proportion of medicine; For surgical patients, the two reforms had effectively reduced the proportion of consumables, and the proportion of drugs had gradually decreased.Conclusions:The two reforms have effectively controlled the growth trend of hospitalization expenses, and changed the cost structure of drugs and consumables.
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Objective To identify departments involved, and the appraisal and compensation of such disputes in Beijing, for preventive recommendations. Methods A retrospective descriptive statistical analysis was carried out to retrieve and extract keywords from the first-instance judgments totaling 445 cases of medical damage liability disputes from 2014 to 2016 in Beijing. This analysis covered the age, disease, departments involved, liability judgment among other information. These cases were published at the website of China judgment documents. Results Patients with musculoskeletal connective tissue diseases, circulatory system disease and tumor accounted for the most lawsuits. The departments involved with more disputes were the department of gynecology and obstetrics (80/445, 18. 0％), orthopedics (69/445, 15. 5％), and emergency department(45/445, 10. 1％). 83. 8 percent of the disputes were found with medical quality problems;and 84. 3％ were lost with compensations. Conclusions It is imperative to elevate the diagnosis and treatment level on musculoskeletal connective tissue diseases, circulatory system disease and tumors, and take precautions against disputes at such key departments as gynecology and obstetrics department, orthopedics department, and emergency department. Other precautions include normalized medical record writing, medical risk disclosure, higher medical quality and patient safety.