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Table 4 Change in length of stay

From: It probably worked: a Bayesian approach to evaluating the introduction of activity-based hospital payment in Israel

Procedure

Time ratio

Posterior Pr[tr < 1]

HPD-based 95% credibility interval

Effective sample size

Acceptance rate

General surgery

     

Open abdom. hernia rep

0.867

0.948

(0.718; 1.034)

9260

0.368

Lap. abdom. hernia rep

0.974

0.666

(0.833; 1.118)

11,966

0.360

Lap. diaphragm. hernia rep

1.017

0.412

(0.865; 1.172)

23,134

0.385

Anti-reflux surgery

1.050

0.265

(0.896; 1.216)

35,752

0.351

Open splenect

0.894*

0.968

(0.784; 1.002)

25,060

0.373

Urology

     

Perct. nephrostomy

0.853**

0.998

(0.769; 0.940)

8050

0.385

Open part. nephrect

0.871*

0.979

(0.756; 0.990)

10,308

0.375

Lap. part. nephrect

0.801*

0.984

(0.640; 0.967)

3241

0.360

Open complete nephrect

0.891*

0.957

(0.767; 1.013)

9207

0.392

Lap. complete nephrect

0.950

0.834

(0.843; 1.061)

24,059

0.363

Diag. ureterosc

0.852**

0.996

(0.759; 0.949)

8251

0.365

Therap. ureterosc

0.892*

0.968

(0.783; 1.002)

1489

0.360

Gynecology

     

Lap. salpingect

0.957

0.830

(0.864; 1.055)

4082

0.350

Lap. salp.-oophorect

0.929

0.940

(0.840; 1.021)

2774

0.394

  1. *Significant at the 95% level
  2. **Significant at the 99% level (both for one-sided test of [tr < 1]); the 95% HPD interval limits correspond to the 2.5% and 97.5% quantiles of the a-posteriori distributions