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

Table 3 Results of multiple linear regression analyzing log transformed daily expenditure, LOS and number of drugs per record

	Log transformed daily expenditure	95% CI interval	LOS	95% CI interval	Number of drugs per record	95% CI interval
Post-reform	−0.017^***	− 0.023 to − 0.010	−0.475^***	− 0.693 to − 0.256	−0.176	− 0.498 to 0.146
Age group
[5,18)	0.016^**	0.006 to 0.026	0.503^**	0.172 to 0.835	0.780^**	0.292 to 1.267
[18,65)	0.003	−0.037 to 0.043	4.120^***	2.823 to 5.418	3.472^***	1.563 to 5.381
[65, 95]	0.038	−0.002 to 0.078	6.378^***	5.082 to 7.675	9.289^***	7.381 to 11.197
Female	−0.002	−0.008 to 0.005	− 0.300^**	−0.515 to − 0.084	−0.104	− 0.422 to 0.213
Internal medicine	0.127^***	0.088 to 0.165	1.601^*	0.335 to 2.868	−1.883^*	−3.746 to −0.019

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