The Research Of Chinese Hospital Appraisal System

Hospital evaluation in China is a government-guided behavior of medical service supervision, which aims to take patients as the center, ensure sustainable improvement of medical safety, increase medical quality and efficiency, and strengthen inner construction of hospital. The time is ripe to restore hospital appraisal in our country with the deepening of medical system reform. The Ministry of Health is now actively preparing relevant materials to gradually restore hospital appraisal and construct our evaluation indicator system of hospital administration.At first, this article introduced the definition and quality of hospital evaluation, current situation of hospital evaluation in our country, and the importance of restoring hospital evaluation. Then it analyzed theoretical basis of hospital evaluation abroad, introduced Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation standards for hospital in America, evaluation criteria of Australia, hospital function evaluation in Tokyo, and comparatively analyzed referential significance of JCI standards.Meanwhile, it presented experiences from the Hospital Management Year Activity with the theme of "taking patients as the center, improving medical service quality" and eight consecutive years' evaluating examination of upper first-class hospitals in Beijing district. It also analyzed experiences and lessons from hospital evaluation of last round in China, put forward main countermeasures for the framework system of hospital evaluation in the new round, and emphatically analyzed new criteria for hospital evaluation. At last, the article comparatively analyzed advantages of hospital evaluation in the new round as follows. First, the new hospital evaluation extended the grading system of tertiary hospital, and fully inherited the elite of last round's hospital evaluation. Secondly, it used advanced experiences of other countries for reference, and combined our experiences in hospital evaluation. Thirdly, the main line of evaluation criteria was medical quality and medical safety, and it strengthened the internal administration of hospitals.