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Table 6 Comparative analysis for group two questions

From: Doctors in Chinese public hospitals: demonstration of their professional identities

Questions

Comparative analysis

Doctors

 How often do you prescribe tests and procedures that are not necessary to patients, but for generating profit for the department and/or hospital?

Doctors from internal medical units were significantly more likely to select the answers of rarely or never than those from surgical units. Chi square = 11.908, df = 4, p = 0.018.

Patients

 Patients give doctors gifts because they want better treatment

Patients from LWH were more likely to agree or strongly agree that the reason for them to give doctors presents were for better treatment than patients from QFSH. Chi square = 33.672, df = 4, p < 0.0001.