Table 4. Variations in the percentage of positive responses (PPR) across agency characteristics.
| Safety Climate | Teamwork Climate | Perceptions of Mgmt |
Job Satisfaction | Working Conditions |
Stress Recognition | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % 95% CI |
% 95% CI |
% 95% CI |
% 95% CI |
% 95% CI |
% 95% CI |
|
| Study Sample | 58.6 (52.7, 64.5) | 52.8 (46.5, 59.1) | 43.8 (36.7, 50.9) | 63.4 (57.5, 69.4) | 46.3 (41.4, 51.3) | 28.6 (25.2, 32.0) |
|
Agency Type &
Geography |
* | ** | ** | NS | NS | NS |
| Rural Ground | 57.9 (52.1, 63.8) | 52.1 (45.3, 59.0) | 49.5 (41.0, 58.0) | 66.4 (57.0, 75.8) | 47.1 (39.1, 55.1) | 23.3 (18.0, 28.7) |
| Urban Ground | 54.0 (45.2, 62.8) | 47.9 (38.9, 56.8) | 33.4 (25.9, 40.9) | 59.2 (50.7, 67.7) | 43.2 (36.3, 50.2) | 29.9 (25.6, 34.1) |
| Air-Medical Only | 75.9 (66.7, 85.2) | 71.1 (61.2, 80.9) | 70.7 (58.0, 83.3) | 75.2 (63.4, 87.0) | 57.9 (48.6, 67.2) | 31.2 (19.4, 43.0) |
| Both Ground & Air-Medical |
59.5 (46.7, 72.2) | 54.1 (46.2, 61.9) | 45.2 (38.3, 52.1) | 63.0 (55.4, 70.6) | 42.5 (27.2, 57.8) | 32.4 (14.8, 50.1) |
| Model affiliation | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| Hospital-based | 50.4 (39.7,61.1) | 44.4 (34.9,53.9) | 41.5 (29.6,53.4) | 57.1 (46.7,67.4) | 38.0 (29.1,46.9) | 25.3 (20.1,30.5) |
| Fire-based | 61.1 (53.1,69.1) | 60.3 (48.7,72.0) | 36.1 (20.7,48.8) | 75.8 (64.2,87.4) | 48.4 (38.6,58.3) | 23.8 (15.3,32.3) |
| 3rd Service/Gov’t | 56.1 (45.8,66.4) | 49.6 (38.8,60.4) | 38.4 (27.9,48.8) | 61.8 (52.5,71.2) | 46.9 (38.1,55.6) | 29.1 (23.9,34.4) |
| Private/Free- standing |
61.7 (52.8,70.7) | 54.3 (44.2,64.5) | 51.0 (39.0,62.9) | 57.7 (47.5,67.9) | 47.4 (38.3,56.4) | 32.1 (24.2,40.0) |
|
Number of
employees |
NS | NS | * | * | NS | NS |
| 1-20 | 58.1 (36.9,79.4) | 62.8 (41.2,84.4) | 51.2 (24.3,78.1) | 69.8 (51.9,87.6) | 51.2 (23.6,78.7) | 27.9 (9.9,45.9) |
| 21-50 | 61.2 (55.7,66.6) | 53.9 (48.1,59.7) | 53.9 (46.1,61.7) | 62.8 (55.8,69.8) | 50.1 (44.4,55.8) | 27.2 (22.3,32.2) |
| 51-100 | 59.0 (49.6,68.4) | 54.8 (43.7,65.8) | 43.7 (29.3,58.0) | 69.4 (58.5,80.3) | 44.8 (35.2,54.4) | 29.3 (21.3,37.2) |
| 101-400 | 51.6 (41.0,62.3) | 45.4 (34.5,56.3) | 31.5 (23.1,39.9) | 54.3 (45.9,62.7) | 40.0 (31.7,48.0) | 28.1 (22.6,33.5) |
|
Number of patient
contacts in 2007 |
* | * | ** | * | * | NS |
| ≤ 2,500 | 65.1 (58.1,72.0) | 58.3 (49.6,67.1) | 59.5 (50.0,69.0) | 70.6 (64.3,76.9) | 53.0 (46.9,59.1) | 24.6 (18.3,30.9) |
| 2,501-5,000 | 62.8 (56.1,69.5) | 56.0 (47.4,64.5) | 50.6 (39.0,62.2) | 67.9 (59.4,76.3) | 50.3 (42.7,57.9) | 27.1 (19.8,34.4) |
| 5,001-10,000 | 55.2 (46.6,63.7) | 56.0 (45.4,66.5) | 35.3 (22.4,32.5) | 61.1 (45.4,76.8) | 40.1 (29.9,50.3) | 29.4 (18.6,40.1) |
| 10,001+ | 47.5 (36.9,58.1) | 40.4 (30.6,50.3) | 27.0 (21.5,32.5) | 50.6 (41.9,59.2) | 36.9 (28.4,45.4) | 31.0 (25.8,36.2) |
|
% of pt. contacts
that were cardiac or trauma related |
* | * | * | NS | NS | NS |
| ≤ 2% | 49.4 (43.2,55.6) | 42.6 (36.5,48.7) | 33.7 (25.3,42.1) | 55.8 (47.4,64.2) | 38.2 (31.7,44.8) | 25.4 (20.9,29.8) |
| >2% | 61.9 (54.4,69.4) | 56.4 (48.3,64.5) | 47.5 (38.4,56.7) | 64.3 (57.0,71.5) | 49.2 (43.4,55.0) | 30.4 (25.1,35.7) |
*
indicates significant differences in domain proportions across different levels of a variable p<0.05.
**
indicates significance at p<0.0001. NS=no significant differences identified