| Objectives: Finding out the current state of hospital management research in Anhui Province, providing valuable information for hospital management researchers and hospital managers and strengthening hospital management innovation research.Methods: Analyzing 1207 documents including 676 papers, 313 abstracts and 218 titles, subject headings and keywords on hospital management written by authors from Anhui Province in CBMdisc from the period of January, 1978 to June, 2002 after reexamining those papers and abstracts in 6 academic journals and the related data bases in China, selecting the related information to store it in computers and setting up a data base by using SPSS 10.0 software.Results: The amount of documents on hospital management in Anhui Province is tending to increase year by year, the total number of which ranked 13 in all provinces of China. The increase in the number of papers is basically consistent with the development of the health services in our province, and has obvious periodic characteristics and regional differences. Among the 893 authors, those who came from hospitals constitutes the major part, but those who can be regarded as the core authors are still under initial reformation. Of all the institutions, the First Affiliated Hospital andthe School of Health Service Administration of Anhui Medical University are the main contributors of those papers owing to their productive authors and advantages. The papers were published in as much as 190 journals, 22.2% of them were printed in 5 Chinese core journals of health service management categories, 16.1% in the 2 specialized Chinese core journals of health service management, namely, the Journal of Chinese Hospital management and the Journal of China Hospital management. The Journal of Chinese Rural Health Service Management, the only specialized journal of health service management openly published in Anhui Province, is an important medium to the authors of our province, and what's more important, it has made great contributions to hospital management research and especially the rural township hospital management research in our province.The topics of the papers are quite diversified, but hospital infection management, hospital reform and health service quality control are the main research fields, and papers on health service quality control, hospital infection management and rural township hospital management have been increasing quite rapidly, which become the focus of exploration.As to the types of the research, the theoretical research amounts up to 50.8%, while the evidence-based research constitutes 20.4%. 21.0% of the authors used the method of surveying and statistics, and only 27 papers cited new theories, methods and techniques emerged in management science.12 papers were written with the support of certain financial aids, and that shows hospital management in Anhui Province is tending to be recognized and emphasized by the related sectors and organizations to some degree.Suggestions:1. Improving the hospital personnel's recognition to the importance of specialized and scientific hospital management, realizing the role of management factors andproviding the necessary motivation origin and innovation space for hospital management researchers.2. Pay special attention to the development of the core author groups and actively cultivating hospital management research leaders.3. Setting up or improving the motive system of hospital management research, establishing good academic atmosphere for the researchers and encouraging them to be more productive in their research.4. Cultivating the researchers' concept of "good brand" and raising the papers' rate in the specialized core journals.5. Strengthening the researchers' concept of "innovation", actively exploring new problems in the present hospital management and proving necessary guidance for hospital management system innovation.6. Adopting and utilizing advanced methods and techniques emerged in management science strengthening the rese...
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