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Table 1 Characteristics of participating primary care facilities in urban and rural areas

From: Urban-rural inequality regarding drug prescriptions in primary care facilities – a pre-post comparison of the National Essential Medicines Scheme of China

Indicator

Urban (95 % CI)

Rural (95 % CI)

p value

Client population (thousand)

46.97

(42.66,

51.29)

43.49

(39.00,

47.99)

0.014

Serving radius (km)

10.88

(9.27,

12.50)

13.91

(12.23,

15.58)

0.013

Population density (people/km2)

1036.15

(474.33,

1597.97)

248.01

(203.08,

292.94)

0.000

Number of medical staff

43.38

(38.53,

48.24)

41.30

(36.46,

46.15)

0.013

Number of doctor

17.69

(15.18,

20.20)

13.83

(12.32,

15.34)

0.001

Monthly income of medical staff (yuan)

2161.68

(2041.10,

2282.26)

1812.13

(1737.93,

1886.33)

0.000

Annual income of facility (thousand yuan)

3729.41

(3235.44,

4223.38)

3185.05

(2864.58,

3505.52)

0.020

Drug income of facility (thousand yuan)

1122.60

(896.87,

1348.34)

1149.62

(1009.00,

1290.24)

0.256

Variety of drugs in stock

324.13

(292.18,

356.08)

294.30

(276.33,

312.26)

0.753

Variety of drugs from national EMLs

183.98

(166.22,

201.74)

175.98

(166.00,

185.96)

0.366

  1. Bold indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)