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. 2011 Feb 7;11:28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-28

Table 1.

Respondent and Hospital Characteristics

Worker Characteristics n (%) Hospital Characteristics n (%)
Job title Bed size
 Nurse 3944 (61.7%)  Small (0-299 beds) 3 (23.1%)
 Administrative worker 682 (10.7%)  Med (300-500 beds) 6 (46.2%)
 Physician 538 (8.4%)  Large (500 > beds) 4 (30.8%)
 Technician 481 (7.5%) Teaching status
 Dietician 202 (3.2%)  Teaching hospital 12 (92.3%)
 Pharmacist 155 (2.4%)  University hospital 1 (7.7%)
 Therapist* 116 (1.8%) Location
 Janitor 32 (0.5%)  Urban 8 (61.5%)
 Other 208 (3.3%)  Rural 5 (38.5%)
 No answer 37 (0.6%)
Age
 <20 25 (0.4%)
 20-29 2187 (34.2%)
 30-39 1761 (27.5%)
 40-49 1107 (17.3%)
 50-59 772 (12.1%)
 >59 346 (5.4%)
 No answer 197 (3.1%)
Gender
 Female 4830 (75.5%)
 Male 1450 (22.7%)
 No answer 115 (1.8%)

*Therapist is Physical/Occupational/Speech/Orthoptics therapist.