Table 5

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


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)

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

Liu and Mills Human Resources for Health 2005 3:11   doi:10.1186/1478-4491-3-11

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