The hospital management practices in Chinese county hospitals and its association with quality of care, efficiency and finance

Table 1 Characteristics of the 95 participating hospitals^a

Hospital characteristics	Total (N = 95)	Low HMP hospitals (N = 48)	High HMP hospitals (N = 47)	P value
Location^b, n (%)
East	33 (34.7)	11 (25.0)	18 (44.7)	0.024
Central	42 (44.2)	17 (43.8)	20 (44.7)
West	20 (21.1)	15 (31.3)	5 (10.6)
Teaching hospital, n (%)	73 (76.8)	34 (70.8)	39 (83.0)	0.161
Number of competitors, n (%)
0	38 (41.3)	18 (38.3)	20 (44.4)	0.648
1	33 (35.9)	19 (40.4)	14 (31.1)
≥ 2	21 (22.8)	10 (21.3)	11 (24.4)
Number of staff, mean ± SD	668 ± 281	580 ± 235	758 ± 297	0.002
Number of beds in use, median (IQR)	585 (360, 800)	500 (287, 698)	650 (440, 900)	0.009

Data are shown as number (%), mean ± SD or median (IQR)
^aData reported here are mainly based on the first survey in 2013. For the nine hospitals that only participated in the second survey in 2015, data from second survey are used
^bThe local economy is highly associated with its geographic location in China, it is usually more developed in the east and less developed in the west

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