Medical Cost-benefit Evaluation Of Clinical Departments In Hospitals

With the deepening and further development of the medical reform in our country, people's complaint about the difficulty and high cost of getting medical treatment has become the focus of attention. Under the new circumstances that there is a fierce competition in the medical market, hospitals, which form the main body of the industry, are facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Although many hospitals has strived to improve the quality of services and to increase social benefits, problems still exist, such as how to strengthen the hygienic economy management, how to control the medical cost while improving the operating efficiency in a hospital's clinical departments. To provide patients with knight services at lower prices by cutting down medical cost and increase benefits is a new developing mode hospitals pursue. It is an important way to strengthen hospital's ability for competition and sustainable development.Based on the documentary studies, this article points out the current situation and trend of the cost-benefit management in clinical departments and clarifies the factors which had an influence on the cost and benefit of clinic department by researching on two large general hospitals and their clinical departments by multiple linear regression. The targets of cost-benefit evaluation were primarily defined and selected through expert consultation and the weighting coefficient of each target was decided by means of analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Finally, a target system which could reflect the situation of medical cost and benefit of a clinic department was established and applied to the four clinical departments of a hospital. The data was processed by means of synthetic index and weighted rank sum ratio (RSR) and the result was proved to be reliable by consistency check. This indicates that the target system is feasible and practical in evaluating the cost and benefit of clinic departments.The theoretical analysis of influential factors of cost and benefit in clinic departments provides the research of cost-benefit management with a solid basis. The target system established offers a new method of evaluation for the cost-benefit management of hospitals and becomes a good reference for the decision-making of hospital administrators.