CORRECTION article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Health Economics
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Value-Based Medicine: Lessons From China’s and APAC’s Healthcare Evolution, Volume IIView all 4 articles
Correction: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding China's DRG payment policy among healthcare professionals in tertiary and secondary hospitals in Yunnan Province: a cross-sectional study
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- Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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Correction on: Yang J, Qin D and Li F (2025) Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding China's DRG payment policy among healthcare professionals in tertiary and secondary hospitals in Yunnan Province: a cross-sectional study. Front. Public Health 13:1685544. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1685544. (1) There was a mistake in figure/table [Table 8] as published. [The 'Lower' and 'Upper' confidence interval columns were incorrect and contradicted the 'Estimate' column. For example, the 'Indirect effects' Estimate 0.178 was not within its listed CI of (0.314, 0. The original version of this article has been updated.(2) There was a mistake in figure/ ①[In the "Age (years)" category, the percentage for "36-45" was "26.1%". This has been corrected to "26.0%"]②[In the "Hospital nature" category, the percentage for "Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialized Hospital" was "3.4%". This has been corrected to "3.3%"] Reminder: Figures, tables, and images will be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license and permission must be obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including re-published/adapted/modified/partial figures and images from the internet). It is the responsibility of the authors to acquire the licenses, to follow any citation instructions requested by third-party rights holders, and cover any supplementary charges. Adding/removing text(1) [In the published article, there was an error in the text. The text describing the findings for "Attitudes" by education level was incorrect and contradicted the data in Table 3].A correction has been made to the section [3.3, Analysis of KAP scores by demographic characteristics, Paragraph 2]:Interestingly, professionals with specialist-level (college) degrees reported more positive attitudes than their counterparts with undergraduate or postgraduate degrees."[Interestingly, professionals with specialist-level (college) degrees reported less positive attitudes (mean score: 12.41) than their counterparts with undergraduate (13.37) or postgraduate degrees (14.13).]"The original version of this article has been updated.(2) [In the published article, there was a related error in the Discussion section, which also contradicted the data in Table 3].A correction has been made to the section [4, Discussion, Paragraph 3]:The finding that professionals with specialist (college) degrees held more positive attitudes than those with postgraduate degrees is particularly intriguing (25)."[The finding that professionals with specialist (college) degrees held less positive attitudes than those with postgraduate degrees is particularly intriguing ( 25).]"The original version of this article has been updated.End of template. If you would like to request a correction for a reason not seen here, please contact the journal's editorial office.
Keywords: CHS-DRG payment policy, value-based healthcare, knowledge, attitudes, And practices (KAP), Structural Equation Modeling, Hospital management, Health Policy
Received: 12 Nov 2025; Accepted: 28 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Fan Li
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