Table 2.
Hospital No. | Hospital Attribute | Hospital Level | Hospital Rank (1st to 9th) |
Hospital Reputation | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hospital X | Provincial hospital | Level 3-A (San Ji Jia Deng, third-grade class-A hospital †) | First | High | Hefei city, Anhui province |
Hospital Y | National hospital | Level 3-A (San Ji Jia Deng, third-grade class-A hospital) | First | Top | Beijing city, Beijing |
Hospital Z | Community hospital | Level 1-A (Yi Ji Jia Deng, first-grade class-A hospital) | Seventh | Low | Hefei city, Anhui province |
†: The National Health Commission (NHC) of P.R.C evaluated Chinese hospitals as three levels—Level three, Level two and Level one from top to down. And in each level, NHC divided them to three grades which are A, B and C from top to down. Totally, there are nine levels of all hospitals. For example, the hospital of the highest standard belongs to Level 3-A.