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Table 3 Statistical significance of Chi-squared tests for independency between doctors’ healthcare performance and hospitals’ cost-control actions

From: China’s new policy for healthcare cost-control based on global budget: a survey of 110 clinicians in hospitals

Event A

Event B

P-value

Hospitals’ cost-control actions affect doctors’ healthcare performance.

Limit average prescription cost in outpatient service.

9·50 × 10−10***

Limit average cost in hospitalization.

0·0326**

Limit the cost of examinations.

0·0469**

Limit costs and amounts of examinations/drugs/surgery prescriptions.

0·0730*

Hospitals accept fewer critically ill patients.

0·0522*

Hospitals’ cost-control actions seriously limit doctors’ healthcare performance.

Limit the cost of treating single kind of disease.

0·0203**

Limit costs and amounts of examinations/drugs/surgery prescriptions.

0·0684*

Limit the conditions for the usage of examinations/drugs/surgery.

0·00747***

Hospitals’ cost-control actions are irrational.

Limit average cost in hospitalization.

0·0585*

Regularly rank and limit the use of top-ranked drugs.

0·0720*

Worsen the relationship between doctors and patients.

0·00925***

  1. Note: *, **, and *** stand for significance of 10, 5, and 1%, respectively