Table 3.

Univariate Regression Results for the Relationship Between Hospital Characteristics and Benchmarking Scores

Explanatory Variables	Beta	Standard Error	P Value
Patient population
White, %	0.04	0.02	.08
Black, %	−0.02	0.03	.35
Hispanic, %	0.06	0.04	.13
≥65 years old, %	0.06	0.04	.14
Male, %	0.06	0.15	.70
With no education beyond high school, %	0.11	0.04	<.01
Reporting excellent health status, %	−0.30	0.15	.05
Traveling at least 1 hour to get to the VA, %	0.02	0.03	.39
Clinical emphasis
Council of Teaching Hospitals member	0.18	0.78	.82
Residency training program	0.30	0.86	.73
Number of trainee and resident FTEs	−0.00	0.00	.41
Organizational capacity
Bed size	−0.00	0.00	.28
Number of employees	−0.00	0.00	.28
Nonemergency outpatient visits per year	−0.00	0.00	.29
Ratio of FTEs to average daily census	−0.08	0.10	.44
Physician FTEs per 1,000 outpatient visits	−3.65	4.13	.38
Work setting
Nurses who are RNs, %	−0.07	0.05	.16
In rural setting, %	−0.88	1.07	.41

Variables significant at P < .25 in univariate regression were considered for the “within domain” regressions.

FTE, full-time employee.