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Table 5 Correlations among bonus system, productivity, cost recovery and unnecessary care

From: The effect of performance-related pay of hospital doctors on hospital behaviour: a case study from Shandong, China

 

Type of bonus

Efficiency score

Service revenue

Cost recovery

Efficiency score

-0.4075

   
 

(0.001)

   

Service revenue

0.7353

-0.2952

  
 

(0.001)

(0.001)

  

Cost recovery

0.3002

-0.2559

0.3328

 
 

(0.009)

(0.005)

(0.0002)

 

Unnecessary care

0.3502

-0.2989

0.2374

0.0534

 

(0.012)

(0.035)

(0.0969)

(0.7128)

  1. Sample sizes: n = 50 for the correlation with unnecessary care; for all the others n = 120