Table 4 The impact of new subsidization policy to institutional changes in different levels of medical settings
Impact | Total (n = 605) | Primary care settings (n = 463) | Community hospitals (n = 56) | Regional hospitals (n = 61) | Medical centers (n = 25) | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
Increase in smoking cessation clinics | 167 | (27.6) | 125 | (27.0) | 15 | (26.8) | 15 | (24.6) | 12 | (48.0) | 0.134 |
Increase in physicians providing smoking cessation services | 113 | (18.7) | 66 | (14.3) | 16 | (28.6) | 14 | (23.0) | 17 | (68.0) | <0.001 |
Increase in expense of smoking cessation medications | 320 | (52.9) | 249 | (53.8) | 25 | (44.6) | 31 | (50.8) | 15 | (60.0) | 0.515 |
Increase in case managers in charge of the follow-up of patients | 97 | (16.1) | 58 | (12.6) | 14 | (25.0) | 15 | (24.6) | 10 | (40.0) | <0.001 |
Increase in professional counselors | 76 | (12.6) | 42 | (9.1) | 10 | (17.9) | 13 | (21.3) | 11 | (44.0) | <0.001 |