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Table 3 Summary statistics before and after the organizational change, in average MDCs

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

  

LoS

Re-Admiss.1

Re-Admiss.2

Mortality

PC hospitals

 

Obs.

Mean.

Mean.

Mean.

Mean.

Before

441

7.210

0.045

0.058

0.050

After

126

7.509

0.037

0.051

0.063

Change

 

0.300

-0.008

-0.007

0.012

Functional hospitals

Before

9,023

7.859

0.041

0.075

0.060

After

2,53

8.275

0.038

0.078

0.071

Change

 

0.416

-0.003

0.002

0.011

  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
  3. Re-Admiss.1: Re-hospitalization rate (same hosp. & MDC) and
  4. Re-Admiss.2: Re-hospitalization rate (MDC)