Table 6.

Medical services in national health and medical institutions from 2020 to 2022.

Statistical indicators	2020	2021	2022
Number of beds in medical institutions nationwide (10,000)	880.46	914.85	943.64
Practicing physicians and (assistant) physicians	408.6	428.8	443.5
Number of diagnosis and treatment visits (100 million)	77.4	84.7	84.2
Number of hospital admissions (10,000 people)	23,013	24,726	24,686
Average number of doctor visits per day	7.55	7.87	7.56
Physicians’ average daily charge of inpatient beds	1.56	1.59	1.51
Hospital bed utilization rate (%)	72.50	74.6	71
The average length of stay for discharged patients (days)	8.5	9.2	9.2

Data source: China Health Commission’s 2020–2022 China Health Care Development Statistical Bulletin (38–40).