Study on Nation-wide Health Care Quality Information Openness and Transparency Mechanism Establishment

• Conditions: Valuable Suggestions to Improve Health Care Quality Transparent and Accessible Medical Care

• Registration Number: NCT01194011
• Lead Sponsor: Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital

Brief Summary

Research objectives To provide people with sufficient information regarding health care and to improve its quality, this research endeavors to discuss the establishment of a health care information openness and transparency mechanism within the framework of the National Health Insurance system. This research also evaluates whether the transparency of health care quality information makes care givers provide better quality. Meanwhile, when appropriate information and quality index are presented to patients, patients shall have more knowledge about what they are dealing with, hence less misunderstanding between hospitals and patients would occur.

Research Methods

1. To revise indicators based on international trends, related literature and the need of people.

2. To present 50 sets of quality indicator statistically on the website, and provide updated information about the first 10 sets.

3. To analyze and explain the outcome and purposes of the indicator to the public.

4. To estimate the possible trend for the coming year, and provide adaptive strategy.

5. To promote the website, and hold workshops in all six regions of Taiwan.

6. To make the website linked to the top 5 most populated official and unofficial websites.

7. To respond to questions on the forum of the website daily, and maintain the system, update the website regularly.

8. To complete the acceptability survey on health care institutions and people.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2010-06
• Study First Submitted: 2010-06-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-08-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-08-31
• Study First Posted: 2010-09-02
• Last Update Posted: 2010-09-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NO_LONGER_AVAILABLE
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• Outpatient ; healthy subjects patients

Exclusion Criteria

• The plan excluded child / children and other minors who were the target respondents, mainly to investigate the medical information for public acceptance of the site, child / children is not suitable, so as to adults as the main investigation.

Study & Design

• Study Type: EXPANDED_ACCESS
• Study Design: Not specified