Transforming healthcare system: Outcomes of Healthier-SG from a large tertiary-care hospital in Singapore

IF 3.4 3区医学 Q1 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

Health Policy and Technology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.hlpt.2024.100968

Yong Yang , Indumathi Venkatachalam , Chi Ting Low , Mabel Zhi Qi Foo , May Kyawt Aung , Shawn Wee Jin See , Myat Oo Aung , Darius Yak Weng Chan , Shalvi Arora , Jean Xiang Ying Sim , Yuke Tien Fong , Vui Kian Ho , Yee Sien Ng , Lian Leng Low , Srinath Sridharan , Moi Lin Ling , Chai Rick Soh

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Abstract

Objective

Healthier-SG is a major transformation of the healthcare system which focuses on proactively preventing individuals from falling ill. We aimed to determine if the introduction of Healthier-SG was associated with changes in outcomes of admitted patients.

Methods

Retrospective cohort study of patients aged ≥21 who were admitted 18 months prior to (January 2022 to June 2023) and 6 months post (Jul to Dec 2023) implementation of Healthier-SG. Relevant patient information was also extracted.

Results

109,451 inpatients were included overtime with 30,692 (28.0 %) patients admitted post Healthier-SG. For medical conditions that could be managed in the community, admissions for dementia (0.2 % vs. 0.1 % P = 0.003) and peripheral vascular disease (0.4 % vs. 0.3 % P = 0.011) decreased significantly after Healthier-SG, but no differences for most other conditions (all p > 0.05). The patient's hospital length of stay [HLOS, geometric means (GM), prior to 3.8 vs. post Healthier-SG 3.5 days] and in-hospital mortality (3.7 % vs. 2.9 %, all P < 0.001) were significantly decreased post Healthier-SG. The bed-days for patients enrolled with SingHealth cluster (GM, 4.92 vs. 4.77 days, p = 0.022) over 2023 were also decreased after Healthier-SG. Multivariate regression analysis showed implementation of Healthier-SG was associated with statistically significant changes in HLOS [incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.9, p < 0.001) and in-hospital mortality [Odds ratio (OR) 0.8, p < 0.001], with adjustment for other relevant parameters.

Conclusions

The Healthier-SG implementation was associated with significantly reduced HLOS and decreased in-hospital mortality during the early phase of Healthier-SG, even though the expected shift away of the chronic disease conditions from acute hospitals was not seen yet.

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Health Policy and Technology Medicine-Health Policy

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9.20

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88 days

期刊介绍： Health Policy and Technology (HPT), is the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), a cross-disciplinary journal, which focuses on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in clinical and non-clinical national and international health environments. HPT provides a further excellent way for the FPM to continue to make important national and international contributions to development of policy and practice within medicine and related disciplines. The aim of HPT is to publish relevant, timely and accessible articles and commentaries to support policy-makers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in health policy and technology. Topics covered by HPT will include: - Health technology, including drug discovery, diagnostics, medicines, devices, therapeutic delivery and eHealth systems - Cross-national comparisons on health policy using evidence-based approaches - National studies on health policy to determine the outcomes of technology-driven initiatives - Cross-border eHealth including health tourism - The digital divide in mobility, access and affordability of healthcare - Health technology assessment (HTA) methods and tools for evaluating the effectiveness of clinical and non-clinical health technologies - Health and eHealth indicators and benchmarks (measure/metrics) for understanding the adoption and diffusion of health technologies - Health and eHealth models and frameworks to support policy-makers and other stakeholders in decision-making - Stakeholder engagement with health technologies (clinical and patient/citizen buy-in) - Regulation and health economics