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Table 2 Descriptive Statistics

From: The cost of readmissions in hospitals: the case of the Spanish public hospitals

Variable

Mean

St. Dev

Min

Max

Readmissions (R)

2.77

0.95

0.02

11.43

Discharges in general medicine (y1)

21,933.05

17,976.80

94.00

93,501.30

Discharges in Intensive Care (y2)

196.37

268.44

0.00

3103.00

Outpatient visits (y3)

67,304.12

54,439.75

169.10

327,394.9

Medical Staffa (x1)

270.40

242.65

5.00

1619.00

Non-medical health personnela (x2)

435.77

464.14

5.00

2951.00

Other non-health personnela (x3)

1033.17

1051.71

27.50

6292.00

Exp. on pharmaceuticals (x4) (000€)

17,508.68

22,978.61

0.19

155,980.9

Other expenditures (x5) (000€)

13,820.99

16,177.29

2.54

90,456.02

Operational beds (x6)

353.86

328.08

3.00

1712.00

Diagnostic tests (x7) (000€)

11,727.18

12,291.92

0.344

109,376

STUDENTS

69.84

104.54

0.00

533.00

CASE-MIX (index)

0.51

0.08

0.17

1.00

Costs (C) (000€)

123,484

123,482.9

29.77

711,762.4

H < 100 beds

0.18

0.39

0

1

GDP_1 (000000€)

9828.61

6687.55

95.41

20,900

  1. Number of observations: 3391
  2. a Number of workers. When the worker is part-time it is weighted by 0.5