Table 4.
Characteristics of study sample after payment reform for PSM.
| Variable | Dingyuan (N = 1552) |
Weiyuan (N = 1486) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| AA | 1.44 | 0.50 | 1.45 | 0.50 |
| AD | 1.29 | 0.45 | 1.07 | 0.26 |
| Hospital level | 1.57 | 0.50 | 1.44 | 0.50 |
| Gender | 1.47 | 0.50 | 1.56 | 0.50 |
| Age | 56.20 | 22.46 | 45.81 | 20.96 |
| Occupation | 5.01 | 0.20 | 5.14 | 0.75 |
| Marital status | 1.85 | 0.37 | 1.83 | 0.45 |
| Admission department | 1.58 | 0.87 | 1.26 | 0.76 |
| Admission route | 1.30 | 0.46 | 1.30 | 0.46 |
| Length of stay | 6.11 | 4.68 | 6.19 | 1.86 |
| Admission status | 1.31 | 0.55 | 1.58 | 0.51 |
| Health status | 1.34 | 0.63 | 1.69 | 0.51 |
| History of disease | 0.46 | 0.50 | 0.19 | 0.39 |
| Chronic | 0.40 | 0.49 | 0.14 | 0.34 |
| History of surgery | 0.05 | 0.21 | 0.01 | 0.10 |
AA, the appropriateness of admission; AD, the appropriateness of disease. The mean shows the annual average for each variable. SD stands for standard deviations.