Can single disease payment system based on clinical pathway reduce hospitalization costs in rural area? A case study of uterine leiomyoma in Anhui, China

Table 3 Comparison of cost constituent ratio (⁻x ± s)

Cost category	Medicine	Nursing	Materials	Ward	Operation	Examination	Assay	Treatment	Anesthetic	Other
Experimental group	0.192 ± 0.086	0.036 ± 0.029	0.139 ± 0.067	0.043 ± 0.019	0.204 ± 0.057	0.080 ± 0.043	0.122 ± 0.039	0.073 ± 0.035	0.088 ± 0.029	0.033 ± 0.043
Control group	0.236 ± 0.114	0.035 ± 0.020	0.128 ± 0.052	0.037 ± 0.017	0.176 ± 0.054	0.05 ± 0.026	0.130 ± 0.048	0.089 ± 0.056	0.085 ± 0.027	0.055 ± 0.055
Difference value	−0.041	0.001	0.011	0.006	0.026	0.037	−0.006	−0.018	0.005	−0.023
t	7.402	−0.955	−3.454	−5.668	−8.841	−21.079	2.614	5.648	−2.795	7.81
P	< 0.01	0.35	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01

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