A survey of availability, price and affordability of essential medicines from 2011 to 2016 in Chinese secondary and tertiary hospitals

Table 3 Median MPR for essential medicines in China from 2011 to 2016

Year	Nationwide		Eastern		Middle		Western		P
Year	MPR	Product specific ΔMPR	MPR	Product specific ΔMPR	MPR	Product specific ΔMPR	MPR	Product specific ΔMPR	P
2011	4.48		6.58		4.22		3.36		0.001
2012	4.20	−0.16	10.34	−0.08	3.64	−0.10	4.73	0.04	0.001
2013	4.70	−0.10	9.90	−0.20	4.58	−0.02	4.62	0.08	0.000
2014	5.42	−1.01	9.48	−0.24*	4.46	−0.10*	4.48	−0.06*	0.001
2015	4.58	−0.22*	8.76	−0.14*	4.43	−0.09*	4.40	−0.06	0.003
2016	11.68	0.04	12.97	−0.08	5.06	−0.04	5.01	0.05	0.001

^*P < 0.05
Product specific Δ MPR: first calculated the differences of MPR of each product between adjacent years and then chose the median value of these differences as Product specific Δ MPR

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