Objective To systematically review the willingness rate of Chinese residents to renew family doctors contract services. Methods PubMed, Web of Science, EMbase, ScienceDirect, CNKI, WanFang Data and VIP databases were electronically searched to collect cross-sectional studies related to the willingness of Chinese residents to renew family doctors contract services from inception to November 2021. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data, and assessed the risk of bias of the included studies. Meta-analysis was then performed by using Stata 16.0 software. Results A total of 23 cross-sectional studies involving 22 629 subjects were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that the willingness rate of Chinese residents to renew family doctors contract services was 84.2% (95%CI 80.0% to 88.3%). The results of subgroup analysis showed that contracted residents who were surveyed in 2011 to 2015 (85.7%), living in eastern (87.0%) and urban (84.7%), above age 60 (88.5%), females (85.1%), non-married (86.5%), with primary school and below education level (91.4%), with employee medical insurance (84.5%) and residents medical insurance (85.2%), not working (77.9%), with high and medium levels of health status (84.5%), with chronic diseases (86.7%), preferred to consult general diseases in primary health care institutions (89.5%), and walking to nearby community health service institutions requiring less than 30 minutes (86.9%) had a relatively high willingness to renew contracts. The contracted residents whose health status improved (91.0%), medical expenses reduced (91.5%) and medical portability improved (88.4%), more satisfied with contracted services (85.3%), more trusted in contracted doctors (87.9%), knowing family doctors’ name (86.7%) and contact information (84.2%) and enjoying visiting medical service (79.7%), telephone follow-up (79.6%), and health files establishment (80.1%) were more willing to renew contracts. Conclusion Current evidence suggests that the willingness of Chinese residents to renew family doctors contract services is high, however, it remains to be improved. Due to the limited quality and quantity of the included studies, more high-quality studies are needed to verify the above conclusion.

Citation： JIA Linlin, ZHAN Yuting, CAO Xuefei, HOU Yanhong. Residents' willingness to renew family doctors contract services in China: a meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2022, 22(3): 324-331. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202111059 Copy