Table 3.

Summary statistics before and after the organizational change, in average MDCs

		LoS	Re-Admiss.1	Re-Admiss.2	Mortality
PC hospitals
	Obs.	Mean.	Mean.	Mean.	Mean.
Before	441	7.210	0.045	0.058	0.050
After	126	7.509	0.037	0.051	0.063
Change		0.300	-0.008	-0.007	0.012
Functional hospitals
Before	9,023	7.859	0.041	0.075	0.060
After	2,53	8.275	0.038	0.078	0.071
Change		0.416	-0.003	0.002	0.011

Source: Our calculations using data provided by the Lombardy Health Care Department

Notes: MDC averages out of 3 PC and 83 functional hospitals

Re-Admiss.1: Re-hospitalization rate (same hosp. & MDC) and

Re-Admiss.2: Re-hospitalization rate (MDC)