Table 1.
The basic information of Ningshan county and Zhenping county in 2011.
Table 2.
Basic information of Ningshan county hospital and Zhenping county hospital in 2011.
Fig 1.
Theoretical framework.
Fig 2.
The changing trends of outpatient expense in Ningshan and Zhenping county hospitals from 2007 to 2011.
Fig 3.
The changing trends of drug expense per outpatient visit in Ningshan and Zhenping county hospitals from 2007 to 2011.
Fig 4.
The changing trends of inpatient expense in Ningshan and Zhenping county hospitals from 2007 to 2011.
Fig 5.
The changing trends of drug expense per inpatient visit in Ningshan and Zhenping county hospitals from 2007 to 2011.
Table 3.
The effects on per-visit outpatient and inpatient expense.
Table 4.
Outpatient services: description of dependent variable in the linear regression models.
Table 5.
Outpatient services: the description of independent variables in the linear regression models.
Table 6.
Outpatient services: results of the linear regression models.
Table 7.
Inpatient services: the description of dependent variables in the linear regression models.
Table 8.
Inpatient services: description of independent variables in the linear regression models.
Table 9.
Inpatient services: the results of linear regression.
Table 10.
Reduction of expense in relative terms.
Table 11.
The effects of ZPED on inpatient expense by using different methods.