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Table 3 Variables description

From: Challenges for the surgical capacity building of township hospitals among the Central China: a retrospective study

Variable

Maximum

Minimum

Mean

Std

Noapp

171

0

17

25

size

3

1

1.78

0.63

income

18,526

2267

8447

3486

costgap

3614

447

1177

398

p4p

1

0

0.69

0.46

Payment

3

1

1.8

0.55

IDNs

4

1

1.63

0.93

  1. Note: Noapp, the number of appendicitis provided by the township hospitals annually; Size can represent its inpatient and surgical services’ capacity: street township hospitals = 1, ordinary THs = 2, central THs =3; Costgap, the difference between the average out-of-pocket cost of appendicitis in the THs and CLHs; The remuneration of medical staff are linked up with the healthcare services provision in a certain degree. Payment methods were composited with single-disease with abundant quota, single-disease with limited quota, fee for service. IDNs are vigorously promoted by the China government, the sampling THs were clustered as four types based its property right belongings and management form: no integration = 1, tight integration = 2, loose integration = 3, merged integration = 4