Utility and Utilization of Patient-Reported Experience Measures for the Supplementary COVID-19 Protective Actions at the Ovidius Clinical Hospital in Romania.

Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) provide assessments of patients' subjective experiences and perceptions regarding their interactions with the healthcare system and its services. We present a cross-sectional study of the patient perception and evolution of COVID-19 cases performed at Ovidius Clinical Hospital in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study objective is to explore the utility and the utilization of PREMs in monitoring patient perceptions of the supplementary protective actions.

Evolution of Public Health Expenditure Financed by the Romanian Social Health Insurance Scheme From 1999 to 2019.

The Romanian health system is mainly public financed (80.45%) through the following sources: Social Health Insurance (65%), State and Local Authorities Budget (15.45%), while the private sources (voluntary health insurance and out of pocket) adds an additional 19.

Drug Policy in Romania.

Objectives: The objectives of this article were to describe the characteristics of the drug policy in Romania in the last 10 years and to present the consequences in terms of patient accessibility to drugs.

Methods: The Romanian health care system with pricing and reimbursement legislation was studied while considering the evolution of pricing and reimbursement processes, the key stakeholders, and the reasons behind changes. A critical appraisal was done covering published materials on the effects of pricing and reimbursement decisions.

The Development of the Romanian Scorecard HTA System.

Objectives: To present the characteristics of the scorecard health technology assessment (HTA) implemented since 2014 and to show the results of this HTA process by the end of 2015.

Methods: The health care context and the Romanian HTA legislation were studied while considering the reasons behind HTA introduction, the key stakeholders, and the HTA process as a whole. A critical appraisal was done covering public HTA reports and the decisions made by the Ministry of Health.

Changing patient classification system for hospital reimbursement in Romania.

Aim: To evaluate the effects of the change in the diagnosis-related group (DRG) system on patient morbidity and hospital financial performance in the Romanian public health care system.

Methods: Three variables were assessed before and after the classification switch in July 2007: clinical outcomes, the case mix index, and hospital budgets, using the database of the National School of Public Health and Health Services Management, which contains data regularly received from hospitals reimbursed through the Romanian DRG scheme (291 in 2009).

Results: The lack of a Romanian system for the calculation of cost-weights imposed the necessity to use an imported system, which was criticized by some clinicians for not accurately reflecting resource consumption in Romanian hospitals.