Table 7.
Percentage of hospitals presenting the specified item: external activities
| Number and description of the item as it appears in the Codebook | Public hospitals type 1 (PubHs-1)# N = 198 |
Public hospitals type 2 (PubHs-2)# N = 221 |
Private hospitals (PrHs) N = 344 |
p* value |
p* value PubH-1 vs PrHs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of hospitals reporting the item | |||||
| 77. Possibility to read online or to download health-care booklets | 19.2 | 7.2 | 10.8 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| 78. Medical glossary available | 4.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | <0.001 | 0.01 |
| 79. Scientific studies that the hospital promotes or is involved in | 36.9 | 3.7 | 8.7 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 80. Undergraduate or postgraduate courses that are held at the hospital | 44.9 | 1.8 | 13.1 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 81. Presence of a library | 28.8 | 1.4 | 1.7 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 82. Schedule of activities that take place at the hospital: courses, congresses and conferences | 65.1 | 3.2 | 26.5 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 83. Publication of the hospital itself | 26.8 | 0.5 | 8.1 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 84. Details of job opportunities at the hospital | 63.1 | 6.3 | 17.4 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 85. Associations that work at the hospital: voluntary associations | 46.0 | 11.8 | 5.5 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 86. Associations that work at the hospital: patient associations | 27.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 87. Associations that work at the hospital: associations for the defence of patients' rights | 17.2 | 7.2 | 0.9 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 88. Information on how to make a donation to the hospital | 20.2 | 0 | 4.1 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| 89. The hospital in the media: press review | 20.7 | 0.9 | 7.8 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
# PubHs-1: Public hospitals with their own website; PubHs-2: Public hospitals with a section on the website of their LHA
* Chi-square test or Fisher exact test, when appropriate