Impact of hospital payment reform on rational use of antibiotics: a natural experiment
TDRG hospital payment reform may not affect the total quantity or expenditure of antibiotics use, but decrease the proportion of WHO Access antibiotics use and increase the Watch antibiotics use. Close monitoring and interventions are warranted to improve rational use of antibiotics for health systems during hospital payment reform.
Authors
- Kun Zou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2175-2231)
- Imti Choonara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3069-6323)
- August Yue Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0416-2854)
- ZhongCheng He
- Chia‐Ying Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8698-683X)
- Y. Jiang
- Shaohua Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2587-1684)
- Xin Peng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9277-8415)
- Yong Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5036-4350)
- Lingli Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7520-6298)
- Yanling Hao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2562-6849)
- Jian Shi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0110-8908)
Institutions
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (CN)
- University of Nottingham (GB)
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- La Trobe University (AU)
- National Medical Products Administration (CN)
- Sichuan University (CN)
- West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University (CN)
- West China Hospital of Sichuan University (CN)
- Hubei University Of Economics (CN)
- Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (CN)
- Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1638346
- Primary Topic
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Sichuan University