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- Title
Factors affecting health services strategic purchasing for breast cancer patients: a mixed study in Iran.
- Authors
Yaghoubian, Samereh; Jahani, Mohammad Ali; Farhadi, Zeynab; Mahmoudi, Ghahraman
- Abstract
Background: Inappropriate ways of health services purchasing for cancer patients can be challengeable and costly and seriously affect the access to health services and outcomes. This study aimed at Factors affecting health services strategic purchasing for breast cancer patients. Methods: As a mixed study, this research was conducted in Iran in 2020. In the qualitative phase, 21 specialists and professionals in the field of health services purchasing were purposefully selected and interviewed. After data saturation, interviews were analyzed with the framework analysis and a structured questionnaire was made based on these analyses. 400 breast cancer patients were selected by randomized sampling and completed the questionnaire. Data were analyzed with SPSS23 in p <.05. Results: The highest mean rate of the three main categories belonged to "insurance trusteeship" (4.71 ±.35), followed by "supply management" (4.48 ±.27) and "financial performance" (4.48 ±.37). There were significantly differences between the mean rates of the main categories and the cut-off point (p <.001). In addition, "insurance trusteeship" ranked first (2.58), followed by financial performance (1.77) and supply management (1.65). Conclusion: Of main components in health services strategic purchasing for breast cancer patients, insurance trusteeship, supply management, and financial performance ranked first to third, respectively. Therefore, healthcare policy-makers should consider the placement of insurance trusteeship and coordinate between purchasers and providers for making reform in the health system.
- Subjects
IRAN; HEALTH services administration; MATERIALS management; RESEARCH methodology; CANCER patients; QUALITATIVE research; PURCHASING; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; FINANCIAL management; BREAST tumors
- Publication
Cost Effectiveness & Resource Allocation, 2021, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1478-7547
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12962-021-00324-1