Table 3.

Statistical significance of Chi-squared tests for independency between doctors’ healthcare performance and hospitals’ cost-control actions

Event A	Event B	P-value
Hospitals’ cost-control actions affect doctors’ healthcare performance.	Limit average prescription cost in outpatient service.	9·50 × 10−10***
	Limit average cost in hospitalization.	0·0326**
	Limit the cost of examinations.	0·0469**
	Limit costs and amounts of examinations/drugs/surgery prescriptions.	0·0730*
	Hospitals accept fewer critically ill patients.	0·0522*
Hospitals’ cost-control actions seriously limit doctors’ healthcare performance.	Limit the cost of treating single kind of disease.	0·0203**
	Limit costs and amounts of examinations/drugs/surgery prescriptions.	0·0684*
	Limit the conditions for the usage of examinations/drugs/surgery.	0·00747***
Hospitals’ cost-control actions are irrational.	Limit average cost in hospitalization.	0·0585*
	Regularly rank and limit the use of top-ranked drugs.	0·0720*
	Worsen the relationship between doctors and patients.	0·00925***

Note: *, **, and *** stand for significance of 10, 5, and 1%, respectively