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Table 1 Required number and sampling criteria of patients in each sampled hospital

From: What do patients care most about in China’s public hospitals? Interviews with patients in Jiangsu Province

Type of patients

Departments of internal medicine

Departments of surgery

Urban residents

Rural residents

Urban residents

Rural residents

Outpatients

2

1

2

1

Inpatients

1

2

1

2

Total

3

3

3

3