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Table 2 Summary statistics of patients’ characteristics in average MDCs

From: Evaluating organizational change in health care: the patient-centered hospital model

Variable

Obs.

Mean

Std Dev.

Min.

Max.

All hospitals

Share of male patients (%)

12,120

47.898

0.191

0

100

Average age

12,120

51.773

19.312

0

84.750

Number of HDCs

12,120

522.294

666.592

31

10,81

  1. Source: Our calculations using data provided by the Lombardy Health Care Department
  2. Notes: MDC averages out of 3 PC and 83 functional hospitals