Table 2.

Characteristics of care homes with and without a care home physician in Southern Jutland in 2019

Characteristics of care homes	With a care home physician	Without a care home physician	p-value
Care home facilities, n	26	10
Number of beds, mean (SD)	44.8 (± 16.6)	45.1 (± 25.0)	p = 0.96 *
Distance to acute care hospital (km), mean (SD)	22.6 (± 12.4)	25.1 (± 17.4)	p = 0.63 *
No nurse employed at care home, n (%)	< 5 (< 19.2%) Ⴕ	5 (50%)	Ⴕ

*p-values calculated using the t-test

Ⴕ Less than five care homes with a care home physician did not employ a nurse. Due to the Danish Data Protection Law and Danish Health Data Authority guidelines, we cannot provide an exact number or p-value