Table 2. Characteristics of Hospitals With Admission of Patients With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan .
| Characteristic | Korea (N = 160) | Japan (N = 660) | Taiwan (N = 104) | P Value | |||
| No. | (%) | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | ||
| Ownership | |||||||
| Private | 153 | (96) | 393 | (60) | 72 | (69) | <.001 |
| Public | 7 | (4) | 267 | (40) | 32 | (31) | |
| Location | |||||||
| Rural | 50 | (31) | 321 | (49) | 22 | (21) | <.001 |
| Urban | 110 | (69) | 339 | (51) | 82 | (79) | |
| Teaching status | |||||||
| Teaching | 55 | (34) | 77 | (12) | 96 | (92) | <.001 |
| Non-teaching | 105 | (66) | 583 | (88) | 8 | (8) | |
| Number of beds | |||||||
| ≤299 | 1 | (1) | 145 | (22) | 9 | (9) | <.001 |
| 300–499 | 72 | (45) | 276 | (42) | 27 | (26) | |
| ≥500 | 87 | (54) | 239 | (36) | 68 | (65) | |
| Hospital volume | |||||||
| 1st quartile | 41 | (26) | 171 | (26) | 27 | (26) | 1.000 |
| 2nd quartile | 39 | (24) | 165 | (25) | 25 | (24) | |
| 3rd quartile | 40 | (25) | 159 | (24) | 26 | (25) | |
| 4th quartile | 40 | (25) | 165 | (25) | 26 | (25) | |