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  • Healthcare Management
  • Health Services Research
  • Health Economics

Background:

  • Investigating the interplay between integrated care and market competition is crucial for understanding healthcare system dynamics.
  • China's healthcare landscape presents a unique context for examining these relationships due to its evolving policies and market structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the compatibility and impact of integrated care on regional care quality (DeptQ) within a competitive healthcare framework in China.
  • To determine how different levels of competition influence the effectiveness of integrated care strategies on departmental quality metrics.

Main Methods:

  • Employed multivariate correspondence analysis and a two-way fixed-effects model for data analysis.
  • Utilized data from Xiamen's Big Data Application Open Platform (2016-2019) covering nine specialized departments with inter-institutional referrals.

Main Results:

  • Care quality for referred patients (ReferQ) and the scale of referred patients (ReferScale) exhibit an antagonistic yet not mutually exclusive relationship with competition.
  • Both ReferQ and competition significantly affect DeptQ. Synergy occurs only under weak competition; fierce competition weakens ReferQ's positive impact on DeptQ.

Conclusions:

  • The intensity of integrated care and competition are key determinants of overall regional care quality.
  • Healthcare policy must consider the nuanced interaction between integrated care models and market competition to optimize patient outcomes.