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Table 2 Descriptive analyses of expenditure, service volume and quality of care

From: The impact of global budget on expenditure, service volume, and quality of care among patients with pneumonia in a secondary hospital in China: a retrospective study

 

Total sample(N = 5742)

Variable

Pre-reform(N = 3400)

Post-reform (N = 2342)

Log transformed daily expenditure

 Median valuew

2.68

2.68

Monthly admissionw

 

284

208.5***

LOSw

 Median value

7

8***

Number of drugs per recordw

 Median value

15

15

Record containing antibioticsc

 Yes

3101 (91.2%)

2114 (90.3%)

 No

299 (8.8%)

228 (9.7%)

Readmissionc

 Yes

142 (4.2%)

66 (2.8%)

 No

3258 (95.8%)**

2276 (97.2%)**

Records with multiple antibioticsc

 Yes

1105 (32.5%)

653 (27.9%)

 No

2295 (67.5%)***

1689 (72.1%)***

  1. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
  2. wWilcoxon rank-sum test
  3. cChi-square test