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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: The role of human capital and stress for cost awareness in the healthcare system: a survey among German hospital physicians

Variable

Mean

Std. dev.

Min

Max

Colonoscopy

776.49

934.62

100

5000

Cholecystectomy

3235.55

3734.27

100

25,000

Coronary stent

2742.30

3316.18

150

20,000

Pacemaker

3178.52

3868.15

100

20,000

General human capital

2.96

1.51

1

6

Job-specific human capital

14.25

10.58

1

42

Domain-specific human capitala

2.92

1.16

1

6

Own training in economics

3.14

1.67

1

6

Thinking economically when using material

4.56

1.23

1

6

Job-Stressa

4.24

1.16

1

6

Cost-related stress

3.07

1.52

1

6

Gender

0.54

0.49

0

1

Physician

0.54

0.51

0

1

Supervisory position

0.28

0.45

0

1

  1. Note N = 86; aCronbach’s α. the factors domain-specific human capital and job-stress consist of five items each. Therefore, we assessed the internal consistency. Domain-specific human capital α = 0.88; Job-Stress α = 0.80