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Table 1 Comparison of Characteristics Used to Randomly Assign Six Towns To Three Groups, July 2012

From: Effects of integrated chronic care models on hypertension outcomes and spending: a multi-town clustered randomized trial in China

 

Intervention Group 1

Intervention Group 2

Control Group

 

Apengjiang

Jinxi

Zhoushui

Shihui

Fengjia

Shijia

Number of residents

28,000

15,600

27,055

22,448

27,464

14,126

Annual average income per capita (CNY)

6452

5417

6487

5452

6900

5031

Distance to county (minutes)

50

90

30

60

25

100

Medical facility revenue (CNY10K)

265

169

279

198

311

159

  1. Notes: These basic characteristics were surveyed in July 2012 and used to randomly assign towns to the three groups. We first divided the six towns equally into two clusters: one cluster of three towns with a smaller population, lower socioeconomic development levels, poorer hospital quality, and further distance away from the county center (Jinxi, Shihui, and Shijia); and the other cluster with contrasting characteristics. In each cluster, we randomly assigned three towns to Groups 1, 2 and the control group, respectively