Effects of a reimbursement change and travel times on the delivery of private and public radiology services in Norway: a register-based longitudinal study of Norwegian claims data

Table 3 Summary statistics stratified according to Regional Health Authority before and after 1 January 2008

Variable	Region1				Region2				Region3				Region4
	Before		After		Before		After		Before		After		Before		After
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR
Priv_Serv	10.93	10.41	9.10	9.24	9.42	10.68	7.26	9.00	7.38	7.69	6.91	7.80	2.53	4.65	1.28	3.46
Pub_Serv	23.40	13.16	25.88	14.62	19.93	12.86	20.64	14.65	23.60	10.40	26.38	11.46	28.22	15.00	30.47	14.26
Total_Serv	36.41	11.71	36.49	11.84	31.53	10.91	29.63	10.48	32.15	10.36	34.53	10.65	33.18	14.51	32.96	14.03
Privtime	0.92	1.35	0.92	1.33	1.70	2.23	1.65	2.23	1.45	1.47	1.45	1.47	5.73	3.77	5.77	3.90
Pubtime	0.50	0.80	0.50	0.80	0.82	0.83	0.85	0.82	0.88	1.05	0.97	1.05	1.75	2.05	1.75	2.07
Time_difference	0.32	0.73	0.32	0.73	0.52	1.90	0.38	1.90	0.25	1.18	0.23	1.18	4.42	5.25	4.47	5.33

N, number of observations; n, number of municipalities; “Before”, the data covers 2007, or 12 periods; “After”, the data covers 2008–2010, or 36 periods

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