%0 Journal Article
%T Exploring Willingness and Related Factors by Using the Healthcare Report Cards for Hospitals in Taiwan
%A Herng-Ching Lin
%J Chang Gung Medical Journal
%D 2003
%I 
%X Background: During the past decade, there has been growing a trend to develop and disseminatereport cards to the public in the healthcare industries of the UnitedStates. The purposes of this article were to understand the willingness of hospitalsin Taiwan to use report cards and to explore the factors that influencethe willingness of hospitals to use them.Methods: A postal survey study was conducted on 495 hospitals to explore factorsinfluencing the willingness of hospitals to use report cards. A multiple logisticregression was performed to identify statistically significant factors relatedto the willingness of the hospitals to use report cards.Results: In total, 52.0% of the sampled hospitals were "very willing" or "willing" touse report cards. The top three factors which respondents felt most influencedthe willingness of hospitals to use report cards were the provision forincorrect data, the upgrading of the image of the hospital, and the increase inadministrative costs. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that thewillingness of hospitals to use report cards was positively significantly associatedwith the score of the factor "to upgrade the image of the hospital" (OR= 8.0; 95% CI 1.8-36.0), and it was negatively associated with the score ofthe factor "to increase the possibility of malpractice suits" (OR = 0.5; 95%CI 0.2-0.9).Conclusions: It was also found that more than half of hospitals were willing to use reportcards. Thus, it is recommended that mandatory hospital report cards be initiatedin order to allow consumers to make fair and accurate comparisonsamong hospitals.
%K Hospital report cards
%K multiple logistic regression
%K report cards
%U http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/cgmj/2605/260504.pdf