Table 6.
Per-case inpatient care expenditures by types of cancers
| Type of cancer | Cases | Direct expenditure | Indirect expenditure | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LNmean | LNSD | Mean (RMB) | LNmean | LNSD | Mean (RMB) | ||
| Lung cancer | 50 | 2.20 | 0.14 | 8505.77 | 1.87 | 0.25 | 651.96 |
| Stomach cancer | 47 | 2.26 | 0.12 | 14627.70 | 1.96 | 0.16 | 1234.37 |
| Colorectal cancer | 41 | 2.23 | 0.13 | 10584.85 | 1.86 | 0.21 | 616.44 |
| Esophageal cancer | 27 | 2.22 | 0.13 | 10317.53 | 1.88 | 0.20 | 714.95 |
| Cervical cancer | 24 | 2.25 | 0.11 | 12741.51 | 1.99 | 0.11 | 1520.87 |
| Other cancer | 129 | 2.21 | 0.12 | 9482.52 | 1.94 | 0.18 | 1054.51 |
| P values | 0.208 | 0.014 | |||||
| All Cancers | 318 | 2.224 | 0.124 | 10365.136 | 1.922 | 0.194 | 929.863 |
Note: LNmean the mean of Ln(Ln(x)), where x stands for individual health expenditures, RMB stands for Chinese yuan, the power for the differences in per-case inpatient care expenditures among different types was calculated using ANOVA