Table 3.

Comparison of TB patients’ default rate between P4P hospitals with case managers and P4P hospitals without case managers.

	P4P hospitals with case managers				P	P4P Hospitals without case managers				P	Pa
	No default		Default			No default		Default
	N	(%)	N	(%)		N	(%)	N	(%)
N	13,012	89.60	1511	10.40		1659	87.32	241	12.68		<0.05
Gender					0.01					0.84	0.01
Male	8635	89.14	1052	10.86		1130	87.19	166	12.81
Female	4366	90.54	456	9.46		526	87.52	75	12.48
Age (years)					0.17					0.67	0.69
<45	3522	90.26	380	9.74		517	87.04	77	12.96
45–65	3735	89.72	428	10.28		423	88.49	55	11.51
>65	5755	89.11	703	10.89		719	86.84	109	13.61
Migration					<0.05					<0.05	<0.05
No	12,979	89.86	1464	10.14		1651	87.77	230	12.23
Yes	33	41.25	47	58.75		8	42.11	11	57.89
Comorbidity level					<0.05					0.03	<0.05
No	12,312	90.01	1367	9.99		1542	87.86	213	12.14
Mild	638	83.40	127	16.60		109	80.15	27	19.85
Severe	62	78.48	17	21.52		8	88.89	1	11.11
Levels of city income					<0.05					0.87	<0.05
High	3348	87.87	462	12.13		503	87.48	72	12.52
Median	9342	90.25	1009	9.75		1140	87.29	166	12.71
Low	309	89.57	36	10.43		15	83.33	3	16.67
Levels of physician resources					<0.05					<0.05	<0.05
High	3123	88.12	421	11.88		538	83.15	109	16.85
Median	7938	90.88	797	9.12		911	91.01	90	8.99
Low	1938	87.02	289	12.98		209	83.27	42	16.73

^aThe relationship of default rate between hospital with or without case managers.