Study on comprehensive evaluation index system of new-type rural cooperative medical system

  Objective   To develop a comprehensive evaluation indes system of the new-type rural cooperative medical systems, which can be used as an effective and easily controlled tool for the government to supervise, monitor and improve the new-type nural cooperative medical systems.

  Methods   Based on the structure-process-outcome of Donabedian, using analytic hierarchy process method and Delphi method to set up the comprehensive evaluation indes system and its weight and using the index method to evaluate the new-type rural cooperative medical systems and trace to the reasons of evaluation results.

  Results   A four-grade evaluation index system was established, including one comprehensive target indexes, three second-grade indexes, twelve third-grade indexes and fortyone fourth-grade original indexes.These kinds of indexes evaluated the working conditions of the new-type cooperative medical systems and trace to the reasons for current conditions.

  Conclusion   The evaluation index system of the new-type rural cooperative medical systems and its evaluation method are comsidered to be highly reliable and valid, reaching the goals expected before basically.