How to promote orderly access to medical care: an empirical analysis based on the Chinese experience.

3) The ‘positive triangle' structure of the population's medical demand determines that the population's utilization rate of primary medical institutions should be higher than that of high-level medical institutions, as a result, the overall utilization of the population's medical services should show a decreasing trend from primary medical institutions to high-level medical institutions. 2.2 Data analysis Based on the above the three-dimensional practice model of China's hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, this study puts forward 2 basic hypotheses: (1) Primary healthcare institutions should be the first-contact facilities and the principal providers of outpatient services for both urban and rural residents; (2) Secondary-level hospitals, which also are county/district hospitals, should be the main providers of inpatient services for urban and rural residents.

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