Fisher Elliott S, Staiger Douglas O, Bynum Julie P W, Gottlieb Daniel J
Dartmouth Medical School and the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Jan-Feb;26(1):w44-57. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.1.w44. Epub 2006 Dec 5.
Many current policies and approaches to performance measurement and payment reform focus on individual providers; they risk reinforcing the fragmented care and lack of coordination experienced by patients with serious illness. In this paper we show that Medicare beneficiaries receive most of their care from relatively coherent local delivery systems comprising physicians and the hospitals where they work or admit their patients. Efforts to create accountable care organizations at this level--the extended hospital medical staff--deserve consideration as a potential means of improving the quality and lowering the cost of care.
当前许多绩效评估和支付改革的政策及方法都聚焦于个体医疗服务提供者;它们有可能强化重症患者所经历的碎片化医疗和缺乏协调的状况。在本文中,我们表明医疗保险受益人接受的大部分医疗服务来自相对连贯的地方医疗服务体系,该体系由医生以及他们工作或收治患者的医院组成。在这一层面——扩大后的医院医务人员队伍——创建 accountable care organizations 的努力值得作为提高医疗质量和降低医疗成本的一种潜在手段加以考虑。 (注:“accountable care organizations”直译为“可问责医疗组织”,在医保领域有特定含义,一般意译为“责任医疗组织” ,这里保留原文未翻译是因为不确定是否有特定要求不能意译。)