Efficiency in chronic illness care coordination: public-private collaboration models vs. traditional management

Table 2 Definition of inputs and outputs used and descriptive statistics

	Name	Definition
INPUTS	Beds	Total number of hospitalization beds available at each hospital
	Medical staff	Total number of physicians working at each hospital
	Non-medical staff	Total number of health care (non-medical) professionals working at each hospital
	Expenditure on goods and services	Actual expenditure on the purchase of goods and services (in Euro)
OUTPUTS	Preventable hospitalizations	Number of hospital admissions that could have been avoided
	Readmissions for COPD	Number of hospital readmissions after discharge due to a COPD diagnostic process
	Readmissions for heart failure	Number of hospital readmissions after discharge due to a heart failure diagnostic process
CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES	% Population > 65	Percentage of population above 65 years
CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES	Morbidity index	Quotient between the annual number of hospital discharges per main diagnosis of people residing in the Community of Madrid and the corresponding number of people-years, estimated as the average population residing in the Community of Madrid.

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