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Table 2 Inpatient and outpatient service utilization at baseline and final evaluation (by income group)

From: Impact of an innovative tuberculosis financing and payment model on health service utilization by tuberculosis patients in China: do the poor fare better than the rich?

Indicator

Period

Extreme poverty

Moderate poverty

Non-poverty

Total

Hospital admission rate (%)

Baseline

48.5

45.0

52.9

48.1

Final evaluation

70.7

68.1

64.3

68.1

Average number of hospital admissions

Baseline

1.5

1.3

1.3

1.4

Final evaluation

1.3

1.2

1.2

1.2

Average rate of hospital re-admissions (%)

Baseline

29.2

17.5

23.0

23.0

Final evaluation

21.2

11.9

12.6

15.5

Average length of stay of the first admission (days)

Baseline

21.1

22.6

26.1

23.0

Final evaluation

24.0

24.7

25.6

24.7

Average number of outpatient visits during treatment coursea

Baseline

4.6

5.0

4.8

4.8

Final evaluation

5.7

5.7

5.8

5.7

  1. aOnly patients who had been diagnosed as TB for more than 6/8 months at the time of survey were included for analysis of outpatient visits