Table 5.

Hospitalization expenses and level of hospital (in Renminbi)

	N	Mean cost	Standard deviation	Median cost	P25	P75	Z*	P value*
Secondary Hospitals	264	10,268	11,181	6780	4016	12,196	−5.7639	<0.0001
Tertiary Hospitals	329	14,687	16,599	9778	6075	17,633

*The Wilcoxon Two-Sample Test was used for comparisons