Hospital unit costs in Jordan: insights from a country facing competing health demands and striving for universal health coverage

Table 1 Data sources ^b

Data collected	Source(s)
Total expenditures per provider (inpatient & outpatient)	Providers financial records, NHA, the Health Economic Directorate, public affairs offices, the Ministry of Finance Budget, the planning and health insurance divisions, and the finance departments in each provider
Total expenditures per speciality	Providers financial records, Providers annual statistical reports
Output units per provider (no. admissions, visits to outpatient, emergency room, no of operations)	Providers annual statistical reports, NHA
No. inpatient days per speciality	The finance/IT departments in each provider, The MOH the Health Economic Directorate, and the public affairs offices in each provider
Hospital bed	Providers annual statistical reports, NHA
Average length of hospital stay	Providers annual statistical reports, NHA
Staff salaries^a	The finance/IT departments in each provider, Health Economic Directorate& planning and health insurance divisions, (MOH), public affairs offices (UH, RMS), Jordan civil service bureau, Health Professional association (Medical, Nursing, pharmacist).

^a Unit costs of staff present basic salary, benefits, gratuities, and social charges. Information about the staff salary ranked system of each provider was obtained from their chief financial managers and human resource departments. The estimated ranges of unit costs of staff were face validated after discussions with conveniently selected staff (two or three staff members in each position, rank or band) from each provider. ^b Data were available for the three sets of providers from the MoH health economic directorate (relating to all 32 hospitals) and the RMS public affairs office (relating to all 14 hospitals). Data were collected at individual hospital level for both UHs

ISSN: 2191-1991